{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Sphaeropsis | authority = Sacc. (1880)<ref name=Sacc>Sacc., Michelia 2: 105. 1880.</ref> | type_species = ''Sphaeropsis visci'' | type_species_authority = (Alb. & Schwein.) Sacc. | synonyms_ref = <ref name="GBIF"/> | synonyms = {{taxon list |''Botrysphaeris''|F.E.Clements & Shear, 1931 |''Gyratylium''|Preuss, 1855 |''Sphaeropsis''|Lév. }} }}

The '''Sphaeropsis''' are a genus of fungi, within the family Botryosphaeriaceae, the order Botryosphaeriales, and the class Dothideomycetes.<ref name="Wijayawardene et al. 2020"/> They are plant pathogens.

Most known species is ''Sphaeropsis sapinea'' {{Au|(Fr.) Dyko & B. Sutton (1980)}} (or ''Diplodia sapinea'' {{Au|(Fr.) Fuckel}} and ''Diplodia pinea'' {{au|(Desm.) J. Kickx f.}}),<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Roy |first1=Julien |last2=Kyritsi |first2=Ioanna |last3=Reinwarth |first3=Nadja |last4=Bachelier |first4=Julien B. |last5=Rillig |first5=Matthias C. |last6=Lücking |first6=Robert |title=Host and abiotic constraints on the distribution of the pine fungal pathogen ''Sphaeropsis sapinea'' (= ''Diplodia sapinea'') |journal=Frontiers in Forests and Global Change |date=December 2022 |volume=5 |issue=971916 |doi=10.3389/ffgc.2022.971916 |bibcode=2022FrFGC...5.1916R |doi-access=free }}</ref> which is the causal agent of the Diplodia tip blight disease on pines and other conifer species.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Blumenstein |first1=Kathrin |last2=Bußkamp |first2=Johanna |last3=Langer |first3=Gitta Jutta |last4=Schlößer |first4=Rebekka |last5=Parra Rojas |first5=Natalia Marion |last6=Terhonen |first6=Eeva |title=''Sphaeropsis sapinea'' and Associated Endophytes in Scots Pine: Interactions and Effect on the Host Under Variable Water Content |journal=Front. For. Glob. Change |date=24 May 2021 |volume=4 |issue=Sec. Pests, Pathogens and Invasions |doi=10.3389/ffgc.2021.655769 |bibcode=2021FrFGC...4.5769B |doi-access=free }}</ref> It is also found on forest and ornamental trees in the Western Balkans, Europe,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zlatkovic |first1=Milica |last2=Keca |first2=Nenad Djuro |last3=Wingfield |first3=Michael J. |last4=Jami |first4=Fahimeh |last5=Slippers |first5=Bernard |title=Botryosphaeriaceae associated with the die-back of ornamental trees in the Western Balkans |journal=Antonie van Leeuwenhoek |date=April 2016 |volume=109 |issue=4 |pages=543–564 |doi=10.1007/s10482-016-0659-8|pmid=26891906 |hdl=2263/52504 |s2cid=254232021 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> and in the United States.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Palmer |first1=M.A. |last2=Stewart |first2=E.L. |last3=Wingfield |first3=M.J. |title=Variation among isolates of ''Sphaeropsis sapinea'' in the north central United States. |journal=Phytopathology |date=1987 |volume=77 |issue=6 |pages=944–948|doi=10.1094/Phyto-77-944 }}</ref>

==History== The genus ''Sphaeropsis'' was introduced by Saccardo in 1880 (for several species of ''Diplodia'' with brown, aseptate conidia), with ''Sphaeropsis visci'' named as the type species.<ref name=Sacc/> ''Sphaeropsis'' was later found to be the asexual morph of ''Phaeobotryosphaeria'' (Phillips et al. 2008,<ref name="Phillips2008">{{cite journal |last1=Phillips |first1=A.J.L. |last2=Alves |first2=A. |last3=Pennycook |first3=S.R. |last4=Johnston |first4=P.R. |last5=Ramaley |first5=A. |last6=Akulov |first6=A. |last7=Crous |first7=P.W. |title=Resolving the phylogenetic and taxonomic status of dark-spored teleomorph genera in the Botryosphaeriaceae |journal=Persoonia |date=December 2008 |volume=21 |pages=29–55 |doi=10.3767/003158508X340742 |pmid=20396576|pmc=2846129 }}</ref> 2013;<ref name="Phillips2013"/> Wijayawardene et al. 2017).<ref name="Wijayawardene2017">{{cite journal |last1=Wijayawardene |first1=N. N. |last2=Hyde |first2=Kevin D. |last3=Lumbsch |first3=H.T. |last4=Liu |first4=J.K. |last5=Maharachchikumbura |first5=S.S.N. |last6=Ekanayaka |first6=A.H. |last7=Tian |first7=Q. |last8=Phookamsak |first8=R. |title=Outline of Ascomycota: 2017. |journal=Fungal Diversity |date=2018 |volume=88 |pages=167−263|doi=10.1007/s13225-018-0394-8 |s2cid=256066125 }}</ref>

==Distribution== Species in ''Sphaeropsis'' have a cosmopolitan distribution since they have been recorded from both temperate and tropical countries.<ref name="GBIF"/> Including; Germany, Namibia, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, (Phillips et al. 2013;<ref name="Phillips2013"/> Slippers et al. 2014;<ref name="Slippers2014">{{cite journal |last1=Slippers |first1=B. |last2=Roux |first2=J. |last3=Wingfield |first3=M.J. |last4=Van der Walt |first4=F.J.J. |last5=Jami |first5=F. |last6=Mehl |first6=J.W.M. |last7=Marais |first7=G.J. |title=Confronting the constraints of morphological taxonomy in the Botryosphaeriales. |journal=Persoonia |date=2014 |volume=33 |pages=155–168|doi=10.3767/003158514X684780 |pmid=25737598 |pmc=4312931 }}</ref> Farr and Rossman 2019).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Farr |first1=D. F. |last2=Rossman |first2=A. Y. |title=Fungal Databases |url=https://nt.ars-grin.gov/fungaldatabases/ |publisher=Syst. Mycol. Microbiol. Lab., ARS, USDA. |access-date=21 February 2023 |date=2019}}</ref> China (''Sphaeropsis citrigena'' and ''Sphaeropsis guizhouensis''),<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dissanayake |first1=Asha Janadaree |last2=Chen |first2=Ya-Ya |last3=Cheewangkoon |first3=Ratchadawan |last4=Liu |first4=Jian-Kui Jack |title=Occurrence and Morpho-Molecular Identification of Botryosphaeriales Species from Guizhou Province, China |journal=Journal of Fungi |date=October 2021 |volume=7 |issue=11 |page=893 |doi=10.3390/jof7110893 |pmid=34829182 |pmc=8618807 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and Chile.<ref name=Cubbage2007/>

==Etymology== ''Sphaeropsis'' is derived from the New Latin from ''sphaer'' meaning sphere or globe and ''opsis'' meaning appearance, vision. So named as the species are similar in form to the fungal genus ''Sphaeria'' {{au|Haller, Hist. Stirp. Helv. 3: 120 (1768)}},<ref name="New York">New York (State). Legislature. Assembly {{google books|NDUo1zYdK-sC|Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 104, Issues 7-8 (1881)|page=36}}</ref> (in the Hypoxylaceae family, Xylariales order).<ref>{{cite web |title=''Sphaeria'' Haller, 1768 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2513058 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=5 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

==Hosts== Species ''Sphaeropsis visci'' causes leaf-spot disease on Asian mistletoe (''Viscum coloratum'' {{au|(Kom.) Nakai)}} in China,<ref name="Chen2018"/> and also on European mistletoe (''Viscum album'') populations.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Poczai |first1=P. |last2=Varga |first2=I. |last3=Hyvonen |first3=J. |title=Internal transcribed spacer (ITS) evolution in populations of the hyperparasitic European mistletoe pathogen fungus, ''Sphaeropsis visci'' (Botryosphaeriaceae): the utility of ITS2 secondary structures. |journal=Gene |date=2015 |volume=558 |issue=1 |pages=54–64|doi=10.1016/j.gene.2014.12.042 |pmid=25536165 |hdl=10138/324961 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stojanović |first1=S. |title=The investigation of ''Sphaeropsis visci'' (Salm.) Sacc, ''Colletotrichum gloeosporoides'' (Sacc.) Penz, parasites on European (''Viscum album'' ssp. typicum Beck). |journal=Zaštita Bilja |date=1989 |volume=40 |pages=493–503}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Varga |first1=Ildikó |last2=Poczai |first2=Péter |last3=Cernák |first3=István |last4=Hyvönen |first4=Jaakko |title=Application of direct PCR in rapid rDNA ITS haplotype determination of the hyperparasitic fungus ''Sphaeropsis visci'' (Botryosphaeriaceae) |journal=SpringerPlus |date=30 September 2014 |volume=3 |page=569 |doi=10.1186/2193-1801-3-569 |pmid=25332869 |pmc=4193967 |doi-access=free }}</ref> While species ''Sphaeropsis pinea'' (Needle cast) is a significant problem in Chile.<ref name=Cubbage2007/>

==Species== {{As of|2023|September|1}}, the GBIF lists up to 143 species,<ref name="GBIF"/> while Species Fungorum lists about 139 species (out of 374 records).<ref name=Fungorum>{{cite web |title=Species Fungorum - Search Page - Sphaeropsis |url=https://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp |website=www.speciesfungorum.org |access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref> Over 600 species were accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020.<ref name="Wijayawardene et al. 2020"/>

This list of species with name, authority and dates is based on the Species Fungorum list.

{{div col|colwidth=20em}} *''Sphaeropsis abietis'' {{Au|Povah (1931)}} *''Sphaeropsis abietis-mariesii'' {{Au|Sawada (1950)}} *''Sphaeropsis actinidiae'' {{Au|Ablak. (1960)}} *''Sphaeropsis akebiae'' {{Au|Dearn. (1924)}} *''Sphaeropsis alsines'' {{Au|Gonz. Frag. (1918)}} *''Sphaeropsis americana'' {{Au|Sacc. (1907)}} *''Sphaeropsis amplispora'' {{Au|Dearn. & Barthol. (1926)}} *''Sphaeropsis arenaria'' {{Au|Tassi (1900)}} *''Sphaeropsis aristolochiae'' {{Au|Dearn. & House (1918)}} *''Sphaeropsis astericola'' {{Au|H.C. Greene (1959)}} *''Sphaeropsis asterisci'' {{Au|(Pat.) Zambett. (1955)}} *''Sphaeropsis astragali'' {{Au|Höhn. (1905)}} *''Sphaeropsis begoniicola'' {{Au|Ellis & Everh. (1902)}} *''Sphaeropsis berberidis'' {{Au|S. Ahmad (1971)}} *''Sphaeropsis betulae'' {{Au|Cooke (1885)}} *''Sphaeropsis cactinae'' {{Au|V.G. Rao (1962)}} *''Sphaeropsis cadabae'' {{Au|S. Ahmad (1971)}} *''Sphaeropsis calycanthi'' {{Au|Scalia (1902)}} *''Sphaeropsis capparis'' {{Au|S. Ahmad (1971)}} *''Sphaeropsis carthami'' {{Au|S. Ahmad (1971)}} *''Sphaeropsis caryotae'' {{Au|V.G. Rao & Narendra (1977)}} *''Sphaeropsis caulincola'' {{Au|(Wallr.) Fuckel ex Petr. & Syd. (1924)}} *''Sphaeropsis cerasifolia'' {{Au|McAlpine (1902)}} *''Sphaeropsis cereicola'' {{Au|Speg. (1910)}} *''Sphaeropsis chromolaenicola'' {{Au|Mapook & K.D. Hyde (2020)}} *''Sphaeropsis cinnamomi'' {{Au|S.Q. Chen & P.K. Chi (1994)}} *''Sphaeropsis citrigena'' {{Au|(A.J.L. Phillips, P.R. Johnst. & Pennycook) A.J.L. Phillips & A. Alves (2013)}} *''Sphaeropsis codiaei'' {{Au|Cif. & Gonz. Frag. (1925)}} *''Sphaeropsis coluteae'' {{Au|Sacc. (1914)}} *''Sphaeropsis conspersa'' {{Au|(Cooke) W.A. Archer (1926)}} *''Sphaeropsis cordiana'' {{Au|S. Ahmad (1971)}} *''Sphaeropsis cornicola'' {{Au|Dearn. (1936)}} *''Sphaeropsis cryptomeriae'' {{Au|Sawada (1950)}} *''Sphaeropsis cycadis'' {{Au|Mundk. & S. Ahmad (1946)}} *''Sphaeropsis datiscae'' {{Au|Sousa da Câmara (1936)}} *''Sphaeropsis dendranthemae'' {{Au|P.K. Chi & F.X. Chao (1994)}} *''Sphaeropsis desmodiicola'' {{Au|(Gonz. Frag.) Zambett. (1955)}} *''Sphaeropsis dilleniae'' {{Au|Henn. (1902)}} *''Sphaeropsis dircae'' {{Au|Ellis & Everh. (1900)}} *''Sphaeropsis dracaenae'' {{Au|P.G. Xi & P.K. Chi (2000)}} *''Sphaeropsis eucalypticola'' {{Au|A.J.L. Phillips (2013)}} *''Sphaeropsis euonymi'' {{Au|Gabotto (1905)}} *''Sphaeropsis fici-elasticae'' {{Au|Petr. (1922)}} *''Sphaeropsis foliicola'' {{Au|(Berl. & Roum.) Sacc. (1913)}} *''Sphaeropsis fragosoana'' {{Au|Traverso (1915)}} *''Sphaeropsis galii'' {{Au|Volc. (1981)}} *''Sphaeropsis ginkgonis'' {{Au|O. Săvul. & Tud.-Bǎn. (1969)}} *''Sphaeropsis glandulosa'' {{Au|Cooke (1878)}} *''Sphaeropsis gouldiae'' {{Au|F. Stevens & Plunkett (1925)}} *''Sphaeropsis graminum'' {{Au|Scalia (1901)}} *''Sphaeropsis grandiflorae'' {{Au|Ellis & Everh. (1902)}} *''Sphaeropsis grandinea'' {{Au|Ellis & Everh. (1904)}} *''Sphaeropsis guizhouensis'' {{Au|Ya Ya Chen, Dissan. & Jian K. Liu (2021)}} *''Sphaeropsis guttifera'' {{Au|G.H. Otth (1895)}} *''Sphaeropsis hamamelidis'' {{Au|Tassi (1904)}} *''Sphaeropsis hariotii'' {{Au|Sacc. (1916)}} *''Sphaeropsis hassanii'' {{Au|(Unamuno) Zambett. (1955)}} *''Sphaeropsis hedericola'' {{Au|(Speg.) Sacc. (1884)}} *''Sphaeropsis heterogena'' {{Au|Bubák (1914)}} *''Sphaeropsis heveae'' {{Au|Gonz. Frag. & Cif. (1928)}} *''Sphaeropsis hippocastanea'' {{Au|Gaja (1911)}} *''Sphaeropsis hranicensis'' {{Au|Petr. (1921)}} *''Sphaeropsis hrubyi'' {{Au|Petr. (1922)}} *''Sphaeropsis hyalina'' {{Au|Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1874)}} *''Sphaeropsis hypodermia'' {{Au|Höhn. (1915)}} *''Sphaeropsis ixorae-parviflorae'' {{Au|N.D. Sharma (1982)}} *''Sphaeropsis japonica'' {{Au|I. Miyake (1909)}} *''Sphaeropsis jodhpurensis'' {{Au|Shreem. & Bilgrami (1973)}} *''Sphaeropsis karachiensis'' {{Au|Abbas, B. Sutton & Ghaffar (2000)}} *''Sphaeropsis latispora'' {{Au|(Peck) Dearn. (1917)}} *''Sphaeropsis leptadeniae'' {{Au|S. Ahmad (1971)}} *''Sphaeropsis ligniperda'' {{Au|Czerepan. (1951)}} *''Sphaeropsis ligustri'' {{Au|N.F. Buchw. (1958)}} *''Sphaeropsis linariae'' {{Au|(Rabenh.) Zambett. (1955)}} *''Sphaeropsis lineata'' {{Au|Ellis & Dearn. (1916)}} *''Sphaeropsis linhaiensis'' {{Au|X.E. Xiao, Crous & H.Y. Li (2021)}} *''Sphaeropsis loranthi'' {{Au|Chona, Munjal & J.N. Kapoor (1957)}} *''Sphaeropsis lycii'' {{Au|Dearn. & Barthol. (1926)}} *''Sphaeropsis lyndonvillae'' {{Au|Sacc. (1906)}} *''Sphaeropsis magnoliae'' {{Au|Magnaghi (1902)}} *''Sphaeropsis melanconioides'' {{Au|Peck (1911)}} *''Sphaeropsis mespili'' {{Au|Hollós (1910)}} *''Sphaeropsis mimosicola'' {{Au|Speg. (1910)}} *''Sphaeropsis moelleriana'' {{Au|Sacc. (1903)}} *''Sphaeropsis muehlenbeckiae'' {{Au|Bilgrami & Shreem. (1969)}} *''Sphaeropsis mulinicola'' {{Au|Speg. (1910)}} *''Sphaeropsis myrtaceicola'' {{Au|Bat. & Peres (1965)}} *''Sphaeropsis necatrix'' {{Au|Petri & Adami (1917)}} *''Sphaeropsis negundinis'' {{Au|Tehon & E.Y. Daniels (1925)}} *''Sphaeropsis nubilosa'' {{Au|Ellis & Barthol. (1900)}} *''Sphaeropsis oligosperma'' {{Au|Speg. (1921)}} *''Sphaeropsis oncidii'' {{Au|(Henn.) Died. (1914)}} *''Sphaeropsis orchidearum'' {{Au|Cif. & Gonz. Frag. (1926)}} *''Sphaeropsis paeoniae'' {{Au|Bongini (1934)}} *''Sphaeropsis pallidula'' {{Au|Fairm. (1921)}} *''Sphaeropsis parca'' {{Au|Berk. & Broome (1850)}} *''Sphaeropsis persicae'' {{Au|Ellis & Barthol. (1902)}} *''Sphaeropsis philodendri'' {{Au|X.H. Zheng & P.K. Chi (2000)}} *''Sphaeropsis phoenicis'' {{Au|J.V. Almeida & Sousa da Câmara (1906)}} *''Sphaeropsis photiniae'' {{Au|Traverso & Migliardi (1911)}} *''Sphaeropsis pilocarpi'' {{Au|Tassi (1901)}} *''Sphaeropsis pinicola'' {{Au|Speg. (1910)}} *''Sphaeropsis plumeriae'' {{Au|S.M. Singh (1979)}} *''Sphaeropsis polianthina'' {{Au|S. Ahmad (1961)}} *''Sphaeropsis ponciri'' {{Au|Teng (1932)}} *''Sphaeropsis porosa'' {{Au|(Van Niekerk & Crous) A.J.L. Phillips & A. Alves (2013)}} *''Sphaeropsis profundae'' {{Au|Tehon & E.Y. Daniels (1927)}} *''Sphaeropsis ptilotrichi'' {{Au|Unamuno (1942)}} *''Sphaeropsis punctata'' {{Au|Dearn. & House (1918)}} *''Sphaeropsis punicae'' {{Au|Shreem. & Bilgrami (1973)}} *''Sphaeropsis puttemansii'' {{Au|Henn. (1908)}} *''Sphaeropsis ralfsii'' {{Au|Berk. & Broome (1850)}} *''Sphaeropsis raphiae'' {{Au|Tassi (1901)}} *''Sphaeropsis rehmanniae'' {{Au|F.X. Chao & P.K. Chi (1994)}} *''Sphaeropsis rhodocarpa'' {{Au|Fairm. (1913)}} *''Sphaeropsis rutae'' {{Au|Höhn. (1925)}} *''Sphaeropsis sabalicola'' {{Au|Ellis & Carver (1902)}} *''Sphaeropsis salicis'' {{Au|Ellis & Barthol. (1902)}} *''Sphaeropsis salviae'' {{Au|Hollós (1906)}} *''Sphaeropsis sapinea'' {{Au|(Fr.) Dyko & B. Sutton (1980)}} *''Sphaeropsis saponariae'' {{Au|Roum. ex Petr. & Syd. (1926)}} *''Sphaeropsis sarmientoi'' {{Au|Speg. (1910)}} *''Sphaeropsis sideritis'' {{Au|Gonz. Frag. (1916)}} *''Sphaeropsis solieri'' {{Au|(Mont.) E. Gallego & Pedreño (1986)}} *''Sphaeropsis spartii'' {{Au|Bubák (1906)}} *''Sphaeropsis spinulosa'' {{Au|(Henn.) Zambett. (1955)}} *''Sphaeropsis sterculiae'' {{Au|Tassi (1901)}} *''Sphaeropsis stictoides'' {{Au|Earle (1902)}} *''Sphaeropsis sumachi'' {{Au|(Schwein.) Cooke & Ellis (1876)}} *''Sphaeropsis teucrii'' {{Au|Volc. (1981)}} *''Sphaeropsis tulipastri'' {{Au|House (1918)}} *''Sphaeropsis vaccinii'' {{Au|W.B. Cooke & C.G. Shaw (1952)}} *''Sphaeropsis valentina'' {{Au|Caball. (1941)}} *''Sphaeropsis veronicae'' {{Au|Wehm. (1964)}} *''Sphaeropsis verrucosa'' {{Au|I. Hino & Katum. (1961)}} *''Sphaeropsis viridula'' {{Au|Tassi (1900)}} *''Sphaeropsis viscicola'' {{Au|Sawada (1958)}} *''Sphaeropsis vochysiae'' {{Au|Peres & J.L. Bezerra (1982)}} *''Sphaeropsis wisteriana'' {{Au|Fairm. (1918)}} {{div col end}}

===Former species=== Many older species of ''Sphaeropsis'' have been transferred to other genera. Such as ''Sphaeropsis malorum'' {{au|(Berk.) Berk. (1860)}},<ref name="New York"/> is now ''Botryosphaeria stevensii'' {{Au|Shoemaker, (1964)}}.<ref name=Fungorum/> Aklso ''Sphaeropsis tumefaciens'' {{Au|Hedges (1911)}} now ''Cophinforma tumefaciens''.<ref name=Fungorum/> ''Sphaeropsis pyriputrescens'' {{au|C.L. Xiao & J.D. Rogers (2004)}} (Sphaeropsis Apple rot),<ref>Q. Ashton Acton (General Editor) {{google books|dmmKxhvxVqsC|Advances in Plant Physiological Phenomena Research and Application: 2012 Edition|page=190}}</ref> now ''Xenosphaeropsis pyriputrescens'' (in the Phacidiaceae family).<ref name=Fungorum/>

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