Cystotheca castanopsidis
| Cystotheca castanopsidis | |
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Leotiomycetes |
| Order: | Helotiales |
| Family: | Erysiphaceae |
| Genus: | Cystotheca |
| Species: | C. castanopsidis
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| Binomial name | |
| Cystotheca castanopsidis (Meeboon & S. Takam.) Meeboon & S. Takam., 2017
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Cystotheca castanopsidis is a species of powdery mildew in the family Erysiphaceae. It is found on plants in the genus Castanopsis.
Description
[edit | edit source]Many Cystotheca species form dense, white or brown, distorting patches on the leaves of their hosts. Some species in this genus are also known to cause witch's-broom galls. Cystotheca castanopsidis, like most Erysiphaceae, is highly host-specific and only infects species in the genus Castanopsis.[1] Also found on the same genus are Cystotheca tjibodensis and Cystotheca esetacea. C. esetacea is characterized by forming brown mycelium without aerial hyphae.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]The fungus was formally described in 2012 by Jamjan Meeboon and Susumu Takamatsu with the basionym Setoidium castanopsidis,[1] before being transferred to the genus Cystotheca in 2017.[3] The species epithet refers to the host genus. The type specimen was collected in Indonesia.
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