Dichotomous table for gallers on Hymenolobus
(incl. Hornungia, Hutchinsia, Pritzelago)
by Hans Roskam
1a On green plant parts => 2
1b On root collar, a one-sided rotund one-chambered swelling, up to 5 mm long. Containing a single white larva. Hornungia alpina: Ceutorhynchus assimilis
2a On leaves or stems => 3
2b Flowers greened. Hornungia alpina: Aceria drabae
3a More or less spindle-shaped galls on shoot axis => 4
3b Wart-shaped, multi-cellular, often variously coalesced galls on stems and flowers. Pritzelago alpina: Synchytrium infestans
3c Occasional infestation. Hornungia petraea: Peronospora hornungiae
4a Vegetative part of stem spindle-shaped swollen. Hornungia alpina:
Unidentified snout beetle
4b Stem predominately swollen over variable length in inflorescence region and bearing white, later on vitreous, dusting of sori. Hornungia alpina, petraea; Hymenolobus procumbens; Pritzelago alpina incl. subp. auerswaldii: Albugo candida
4c Stem and also axis of inflorescence usually with expanded, conspicuous, often distorted swellings, soon covered with a down of branched conidiophores. Flowers of diseased inflorescences severely stunted. Leaves of axillary shoots if infected early, ± spoon-like arched, thickened, brittle, pale green; with a dense down of conidiophores on underside. Hornungia alpina: Hyaloperonospora parasitica