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The desirability is discussed of a subdivision of the genusCeratocystis into a group characterized by the presence of a phialidic conidial state, and a group in which the conidia are usually produced exogenously. Corroborative evidence for this arrangement is found in the carbohydrate constitution of the cells: in all examined species of the former group (Ceratocystis s.str.) rhamnose and cellulose are absent, whereas in the latter both components are present (Ophiostoma H. et P. Sydow).
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Weijman, A.C.M., de Hoog, G.S. On the subdivision of the genusCeratocystis . Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 41, 353–360 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02565070
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