Exutisphaerella laricina
Exutisphaerella laricina (R. Hartig) Videira & Crous, in Videira et al., Stud. Mycol. 87: 352 (2017).
≡ Sphaerella laricina R. Hartig, Forst. naturw. Zeitschr. 4: 445 (1895).
Index Fungorum number: IF 822758; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11151, Fig. 1
Description: see Videira et al. (2017).
Material considered: see Videira et al. (2017).
Fig. 1 Exutisphaerella laricina (re-drawn from Sphaerella laricina from Fig. 101 in Hartig et al. 1895). a Tuft of larch needles. b The rod-shaped conidia.
Importance and distribution
Exutisphaerella comprises only one species causing needle cast disease of European larch (Larix deciduas, Pinaceae) in Europe (Switzerland) (Palmer and Ostry 1986). It has the potential to decrease tree growth and kill highly susceptible trees (Ostry and Nicholls 1989).
References
Corlett M. 1991 – An annotated list of the published names in. Mycosphaerella and Sphaerella. Mycologia Memoirs 18, 1–328.
Farr DF, Bills GF, Chamuris GP, Rossman AY. 1989 – Fungi on plants and plant products in the United States. APS Press, St. Paul.
Hartig R. 1895 – Der Nadelschüttepilz der Lärche, Sphaerella laricina n. sp. Forstlich-Naturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift München 4, 445–457.
Ostry ME, Nicholls TH. 1989 – Effects of Lophodermium seditiosum on growth of pine nursery seedlings in Wisconsin. Plant Disease 73, 798–800.
Palmer MA, Ostry ME, Robbins K, Nicholls TH. 1986 – Occurrence and development of Mycosphaerella laricina on larch in the north central United States. Plant Disease 70, 921–923.
Patton RF. 1983 – Needle cast of European Larch caused by Mycosphaerella laricina in Winsconsin and Iwoa. Plant Disease 67, 1149–1153.
Tomilin BA. 1979 – A classification key to fungi of the genus Mycosphaerella Johans Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR Botanicheskiĭ institut.
Videira SIR, Groenewald JZ, Nakashima C, Braun U, Barreto RW, de Wit PJGM, Crous PW. 2017 – Mycosphaerellaceae - Chaos or clarity? Studies in Mycology 87, 257–421.
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