Arthrocladiella mougeotii (Léveillé) Vassilkov, 1963

on Lycium

Lycium barbarum, Hungary, Budapest, arboretum, 29.v.2015 © László Érsek

detail

Lycium barbarum, Hungary, Budapest, Hűvösvölgy, 19.vi.2016 © László Érsek: mycelium with conidiophores

another angle

Lycium barbarum, Hungary, Mosonmagyaróvár, 31.x.2019 © László Érsek, autumn aspect

detail

gall

mycelium amphigenous, also on the stems and in the inflorescence. Appressoria nipple-shaped. Conidia formed in chains, short-elliptic, without fibrosin bodies. Cleistothecia, rarely formed, with 5-30 asci, that contain 2(4) spores. Appendages up to over 100, densely crowded on the equator, 0.5-3 x the diameter; they are more or less stiff, mostly aseptate, hyaline throughout or brown at the base, 1-5 times dichotomously forked, terminal parts straight.

host plants

Solanaceae, monophagous

Lycium barbarum, chinense, europaeum, ruthenicum.

synonyms

Erysiphe mougeotii (Léveillé) de Bary, 1870; Microsphaera mougeotii (Léveillé) Saccardo, 1882; Arthrocladiella lycii (Lasch) Vassilkov, 1960.

references

Beenken & Senn-Irlet (2016a), Brandenburger (1985a), Braun (1995a), Braun & Cook (2012a), Bresinsky (2016a), Gjaerum (1976a), Jage, Klenke & Kummer (2010a), Jage, Klenke, Kruse ao (2016a), Jage, Kruse, Kummer ao (2013a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kruse (2014a, 2019a), Kruse & Jage (2014a), Negrean & Anastasiu (2006a), Ruszkiewicz-Michalska & Michalski (2005a) , Silverside (2015), Tóth (1994a).