Neocamarosporium betae

Neocamarosporium betae
	Neocamarosporium betae (syn Pleospora betae) on spinach
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Neocamarosporiaceae
Genus:	Neocamarosporium
Species:	N. betae
Binomial name
	Neocamarosporium betae; (Berl.) Ariyaw. & K.D. Hyde
Synonyms
	Phoma betae A.B. Frank, Z. Rubenzuch. 42: 903 (1892) ; Phoma spinaciae Bubák & K. Krieg., in Bubák, Annls mycol. 10(1): 47 (1912) ; Phoma tabifica (Prill.) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 10: 180 (1892) ; Phyllosticta betae Oudem., Ned. kruidk. Archf, 2 sér. 2: 181 (1877) ; Phyllosticta spinaciae H. Zimm., Verh. nat. Ver. Brünn 47: 87 (1909) ; Phyllosticta tabifica Prill., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 7: 19 (1891) ; Pleospora betae Björl., Bot. Notiser: 218 (1944) ; Pleospora betae (Berl.) Nevod., Griby rossi exsiccati: no. 247 (1915) ; Pleospora bjoerlingii Byford, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 46(4): 614 (1963) ; Pyrenophora echinella var. betae Berl., Nuovo G. bot. ital. 20(2): 208 (1888) ;

Neocamarosporium betae is a plant pathogen infecting Beta vulgaris (beet) and causes Phoma leaf spot. It was originally published and described in 1877 as Pleospora betae before being resolved as Neocamarosporium betae (Berl.) Ariyaw. & K.D. Hyde in 2015. It also causes leaf spot on Spinach plants.

It contains the chemical substances betaenone A, B and C. Pleospora betae develops on dead beet residues and is a marsupial stage of the Phoma betae anamorph, parasitizing on beets and causing a number of harmful diseases.