Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Menispora ciliata

Menispora ciliata Corda, 1837

broadly polyphagous

parasite

Velverty, grey colonies on dead leaves. Conidiophores thread-like, brown, branched, ≤ 900 µm. Conidia formed in lateral branches of the conidiophores, 4 x 14-16 µm, hyaline, curved, aseptate, a setula at either end.

host plants

polyphagous

Betula pendula; Calamagrostis; Carpinus betulus; Fagus sylvatica; Phragmites; Picea; Prunus; Quercus ilex, ebur, suber; Tanacetum; Tilia cordata.

references

Chlebicki & Chmiel (2006a), Ellis & Ellis (1997a: 57), Pasqualetti, Rambelli, Mulas & Tempesta (2005a), Rambelli (2011a).

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