Exobasidium vaccinii-uliginosi Boudier, 1894

on Vaccinium

Vaccinium uliginosum, Italy, Great St Bernard pass, 2350 m, 3.viii.2018 © Cor Zonneveld

detail

gall

the leaves of isolated, infected shoots are enlarged and are coloured red or yellow. The spores are oblong, up to 23 µm long, aseptate.

hostplants

Ericaceae, narrowly monophagous

Vaccinium uliginosum.

references

Blumer (1946a), Buhr (1965a), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), Döring (2003a), Ing (1994a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a).