Microsphaera penicillata
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Microsphaera penicillata | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Leotiomycetes |
Order: | Erysiphales |
Family: | Erysiphaceae |
Genus: | Microsphaera |
Species: | M. penicillata
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Binomial name | |
Microsphaera penicillata (Wallr.) Lév., (1851)
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Synonyms | |
Alphitomorpha penicillata Wallr., (1819) |
Microsphaera penicillata is a plant pathogen that causes powdery mildew on sycamore.
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It also affects certain species of Corylus including Corylus sieboldiana, Corylus colurna and Corylus heterophylla.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Perley Spaulding Foreign Diseases of Forest Trees of the World: An Annotated List (August 1961), p. 303, at Google Books
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