Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Podosphaera fuliginea

Podosphaera fuliginea (von Schlechtendal) Braun & Takamatsu, 2000

on Veronica

gall

mycelium amphigenous, sometimes thick, white, finally brown. Appressoria indistinct. Conidia oval, formed in chains, with fibrosin bodies. Cleistothecia, mostly in dense groups, 60-85 µm, with a single ascus, containing (6-)8 spores. Appendages in variable numbers, sub-equatorial, 0.5-5 x the diameter; they are mycelioïd, septate, mostly unbranched, brown.

host plants

Plantaginaceae, monophagous

Veronica agrestis, amethystina, anagalloides, arvensis, austriaca & subsp. dentata + teucrium, bachofenii, barrelieri, beccabunga, candida, caucasica, chamaedrys, exaltata, filiformis, gentianoides, hederifolia, incana, kerneri, longifolia, lyallii, montana, myrtifolia, officinalis, opaca, orchidea, orientalis, persica, polita, prostrata, saturejoides, serpyllifolia, spicata, spuria, urticifolia, verticillata, waldsteiniana.

synonyms

Oidium erysiphoides Fries, 1832; Sphaerotheca fuliginea (Schlechtendal) Pollacci, 1911.

references

Blumer (1946a), Brandenburger (1972a), Braun (1995a), Braun & Cook (2012a), Bresinsky (2016a) Jage, Klenke, Kruse ao (2016a), Jage, Klenke & Kummer (2010a), Jage, Scholler & Klenke (2010a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kruse (2014a, 2019a), Leysen (2017a), Losa España (1944a), Ludwig (1974), Mayor (1967a, 1970a, 1975a), Petrak (1957a), Ruszkiewicz (2000a), Ruszkiewicz-Michalska (2006a), Ruszkiewicz-Michalska & Michalski (2005a), Tóth (1994a), Unamuno (1942a).

Last modified 21.iii.2023