Exobasidium cassiopes Peck,1893

on Cassiope

gall

leaves discoloured yellowish or reddish, shorter or longer than normal, internodia abnormally long; leaves, mainly at their underside, with a fungal flush (basidia).

host plants

Ericaceae, monophagous

Cassiope tetragona.

synonyms

Buhr discusses this species under the name E. vaccinii-myrtilli (= now E. myrtilli Siegmund, 1879).

references

Buhr (1964b), Hagen (1941a), Ing (1994a).