Sphaeropsis visci (Albertini & Schweinitz) Saccardo, 1880

on Viscum

Viscum album, Belgium, prov. Namur, Philippeville, Fagnolles © Stéphane Claerebout

pycnidia

Sphaeridia visci on Viscum album: diseased leaf

Viscum album, Belgium, prov. Limbourg, Gellik, de Hoefaert © Carina Van Steenwinkel: diseased leaf

Sphaeridia visci on Viscum album: diseased shoot

disease shoot

Sphaeridia visci: section throygh pycnidia

horizontal section through some pycnidia

Sphaeridia visci on Viscum album: young conidia

young conidia and paraphyses

Sphaeridia visci on Viscum album: young conidia

young conidia (they turn brown when ripe)

Sphaeropsis visci on Viscum album fruit

Viscum album, Belgium, prov. Namue, Dinant, 1.ii.2018 @ Sébastien Carbonelle: also on the fruits!

hostplants

Santalaceae, monophagous

Viscum album.

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 81), Kruse (2014a, 2019a), Pellicier (2001a), Phillips, Alves, Abdollahzadeh ao (2014a), Varga, Poczai, Cernák & Hyvönen (2014a).