List of invasive fungi

Some fungi are considered invasive species in certain parts of the world:

• Amanita muscaria
• Amanita phalloides
• Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
• Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans
• Carpenterella
• Cryphonectria parasitica – causes chestnut blight
• Cucumispora dikerogammari
• Geosmithia morbida which, in partnership with the walnut twig beetle Pityophthorus juglandis, causes thousand cankers disease
• Heterobasidion irregulare
• Hymenoscyphus fraxineus
• Ophiognomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum
• certain Ophiostoma species which cause Dutch elm disease
• Ophiostoma ulmi
• Ophiostoma himal-ulmi
• Ophiostoma novo-ulmi
• Pleurotus citrinopileatus
• Pseudogymnoascus destructans
• Puccinia horiana – causes Chrysanthemum white rust
• Puccinia psidii
• Pucciniastrum americanum
• Uredo rangelii
• Suillus and Rhizopogon are considered invasive in parts of the Southern Hemisphere, as they promote Pinaceae tree invasion.

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