Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Alternaria carthami

Alternaria carthami Chowdhury 1944

alternaria blight of safflower

on Carthamus

parasite

Leaf spots with amphigenous caespituli. Conidia solitary or in short chains, 15-26 x 60-110 µm with 7-11 transversal and 1-7 longitudinal septa and 25-160 µm long, sometimes bifurcated beak.

host plants

Asteraceae, monophagous

Carthamus.

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 658), Melgarejo Nárdiz, García-Jiménez, Jordá Gutiérrez, ao (2010a).

Last modified 27.xi.2022