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Microsphaera penicillata

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Species of fungus

Microsphaera penicillata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Erysiphales
Family: Erysiphaceae
Genus: Microsphaera
Species: M. penicillata
Binomial name
Microsphaera penicillata
(Wallr.) Lév., (1851)
Synonyms

Alphitomorpha penicillata Wallr., (1819)
Erysiphe alni DC., (1815)
Erysiphe extensa (Cooke & Peck) U. Braun & S. Takam., (2000)
Erysiphe penicillata (Wallr.) Fr., (1829)
Microsphaera alni (DC. ex Wallr.) G. Winter, (1884)
Microsphaera alni var. extensa (Cooke & Peck) E.S. Salmon, (1900)
Microsphaera extensa Cooke & Peck, (1872)
Microsphaera penicillata var. extensa (Cooke & Peck) W.B. Cooke, (1952)

Microsphaera penicillata is a plant pathogen that causes powdery mildew on sycamore.

Spores of the Oidium anamorph of Microsphaera penicillata

It also affects certain species of Corylus including Corylus sieboldiana, Corylus colurna and Corylus heterophylla.

References

  1. Perley Spaulding Foreign Diseases of Forest Trees of the World: An Annotated List (August 1961), p. 303, at Google Books

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Taxon identifiers
Microsphaera penicillata


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