Scytalidium

Scytalidium
Scytalidium cuboideum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Subdivision:
Pezizomycotina
Class:
Leotiomycetes
Order:
Helotiales
Family:
Chaetomiaceae
Genus:
Scytalidium

Pesante
Type species
Scytalidium lignicola (now considered Neoscytalidium dimidiatum)
Pesante
Species

S. acidophilum
S. album
S. aurantiacum
S. circinatum
S. cuboideum
S. dimidiatum (now Neoscytalidium dimidiatum)
S. flavobrunneum
S. ganodermophthorum
S. hyalinum
S. indonesiacum
S. infestans
S. japonicum
S. multiseptatum
S. muscorum
S. terminale
S. thermophilum
S. uredinicola
S. vaccinii

Scytalidium is a genus of fungi in the Helotiales order. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the order is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any family. This genus of anamorphic fungi has a widespread distribution and contains 18 species. Scytalidium dimidiatum (preferentially known as Neoscytalidium dimidiatum) causes onychomycosis in tea leaf pluckers.

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