Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Peronospora silenes

Peronospora silenes Wilson, 1914

on Silene

gall

underside of the leaves with a brownish down, consisting of erect conidiophores that apically several times are dichotomously branching, each branch ending upon an ovoid conidium.

hostplants

Caryophyllaceae, narrowly monophagous

Silene armeria, gallica, nutans, otites, vulgaris & subsp. prostrata.

synonyms

Peronospora vexans Gäumann, 1923.

references

Blumer (1946a), Brandenburger (1985a: 111), Jage, Klenke, Kruse ao (2017a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Săvulescu (1948a).

Last modified 21.iv.2020