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The Cladoriella are a genus of fungi, within the monotypic family of Cladoriellaceae, and within the monotypic order of Cladoriellales, within the class Dothideomycetes. They are parasitic or saprobic on leaves of plants.

Etymology
Cladoriella was named due to resembling species accommodated in Cladosporium (Order Capnodiales, Family Davidiellaceae).

History
Crous et al. (2006b) erected the genus Cladoriella for a saprobic species (incertae sedis) characterised by having narrowly ellipsoidal to cylindrical or fusoid, 0-1-septate, medium brown, thick-walled, finely verruculose conidia arranged in simple or branched chains, with thickened, darkened, refractive hila, with a minute central pore.

The species of Asterinaceae sensu lato clustered together with Cladoriellaceae (Cladoriellales), and a new order is probably needed for this group.

Notes: Crous et al. (2006b) introduced Cladoriella to accommodate cladosporium-like species. This genus is similar to genus Devriesia (family Teratosphaeriaceae), but lacks chlamydospores, and produces a distinct red pigment on media. Phylogenetic analyses also support this distinctness as Cladoriella formed a clade apart from Cladosporium complex (Mycosphaerellaceae), Cladophialophora complex (Herpotrichiellaceae), or Pseudocladosporium complex (Venturiaceae) (Crous et al. 2006b) (Fig. 26).

Cladoriellaceae Crous Saprobes or pathogens on leaf surface. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Hyphae coiling, branched, septate, with swollen cells giving rise to conidiophores, with hyphopodium-like structures at the base, simple, intercalary, brown to dark brown, thick-walled, smooth to finely verruculose. Conidiophores separate, erect, sub-cylindrical, straight, septate, thick-walled, brown to dark brown, smooth to finely verruculose. Conidiogenous cells terminal or intercalary, mono- or polytretic, sympodial, with 1–2 conspicuous loci, thickened, darkened, refractive, with a minute central pore. Conidia remains in long acropetal chains, narrowly ellipsoidal to cylindrical or fusoid, brown, non or 1-septate, thick walled, finely verruculose, with apical conidium rounded at the apex; additional conidia with 1–2 truncate, conspicuous hila; thickened, darkened, refractive, with a minute central pore. Chlamydospores absent (Crous et al. 2006b, 2017). Type: Cladoriella Crous. Notes:  Cladoriellaceae was established by Crous et al. (2017) to accommodate a single genus Cladoriella. Sequence data for this family are available in GenBank and it also supports Cladoriellaceae as a family of Cladoriellales in Dothideomycetes.

Cladoriellales Crous. The order Cladoriellales was established by Crous et al. (2017), with a single genus Cladoriella. Molecular data (LSU) confirmed its status as a distinct order within class Dothideomycetes. This order contains asexual, cladosporium-like species which are found as saprobes or pathogens on leaf surface. In Fig. 25, four species of Cladoriella (Cladoriella eucalypti, C. kinglakensis, C. rubrigena, and C. xanthorrhoeae) grouped with high support. The divergence time for Cladoriellales order is estimated as 183 MYA (stem age, Hongsanan et al. 2020, Fig. 2).

Cladoriellales Crous Cladoriellaceae Crous Cladoriella Crous (5)

Species
As accepted by Species Fungorum;
 * Cladoriella eucalypti
 * Cladoriella kinglakensis
 * Cladoriella paleospora
 * Cladoriella rubrigena
 * Cladoriella xanthorrhoeae

Cladoriella eucalypti was found on Substrate and distribution: Eucalyptus sp., South Africa (Western Cape Province). Cladosporium-like genus associated with litter collected in South Africa,

Other sources
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