Thecaphora leptideum (Sydow) Zundel, 1937
on Chenopodium, Dysphania
gall
the fungus is systemic, infected plants look decrepit and resemble withches’ brooms; (almost) all ovaries are infected. They still look rather normal, but contain a granular, cinnamon brown mass of spore balls, each consisting of numerous, firmly agglutinated spores.
host plants
Amaranthaceae, oligophagous
Chenopodium album, strictum; Dysphania ambrosioides.
synonyms
Glomosporium leptideum (Sydow) Kochman, 1939.
references
Brandenburger (1985a: 121), Buhr (1964b), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kruse, Kummer, Shivas & Thines (2018c), Savchenko & Heluta (2012a), Tomasi (2014a), Vánky (1994a), Vánky, Lutz & Bauer (2008b).