Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Podosphaera fugax

Podosphaera fugax (Penzig & Saccardo) Braun & Takamatsu, 2000

on Geranium

Podosphaera fugax: anamorph on Geranium cf. molle

Geranium cf. molle, Nieuwendam

Podosphaera fugax: conidia

conidia with fibrosin bodies

Podosphaera fugax: conidia chain

conidia chain

Podosphaera fugax: foot cell

foot cell of a conidia chain

gall

mycelium amphigenous, often also on stems an then forming a persistent white film. Conidia formed in chains, with fibrosin bodies. Cleistothecia (rarely present) with a single ascus, containing usually eight spores. Appendages fairly numerous, originating at the basal half of the cleistothecium, 1-5 x the diameter, mycelioïd, flaccid, septate, mostly unbranched.

host plants

Geraniaceae, monophagous

Geranium collinum, columbinum, dissectum, divaricatum, macrorrhizum, molle, palustre, phaeum, pratense, pseudosibiricum, pusillum, pyrenaicum, robertianum, rotundifolium, sanguineum, sylvaticum, tuberosum, wilfordii.

synonyms

Sphaerotheca fugax Penzig & Saccardo, 1884.

references

Blumer (1946a), Buhr (1964b), Braun (1995a), Braun & Cook (2012a), Bresinsky (2016a), Czerniawska (2001a), Jage, Klenke, Kruse ao (2016a), Jage, Kruse, Kummer ao (2013a), Jage, Scholler & Klenke (2010a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kozłowska, Mułenko & Heluta (2015a), Kruse (2014a, 2019a), Leysen (2017a), Ludwig (1974a), Ruszkiewicz (2000a), Ruszkiewicz-Michalska (2006a), Ruszkiewicz-Michalska & Michalski (2005a), Scholler, Reinhard & Schubert (1996a).

Last modified 22.xii.2022