is a Hortaea species.It causes Tinea nigra. This skin infection causes non-scaly, smooth, brown-black painless spots on the palms of hands and soles of feet. Young cells appear brown because of melanin production in the cell wall.
Scientific classification :
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Subdivision:
Pezizomycotina
Class:
Dothideomycetes
Subclass:
Dothideomycetidae
Order:
Dothideales
Family:
Dothioraceae
Genus:
Hortaea
Species:
werneckii
Binomial name : -
Tinea nigra
Tinea nigra (also known as "superficial phaeohyphomycosis," and "Tinea nigra palmaris et plantaris") is a superficial fungal infection that causes dark brown to black painless patches on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet.
