Elsinoë pyri

Elsinoë pyri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Myriangiales
Family: Elsinoaceae
Genus: Elsinoe
Species: E. pyri
Binomial name
Elsinoë pyri
(Woron.) Jenkins (1932)
Synonyms[1]
  • Plectodiscella piri Woron. (1914)
  • Elsinoë piri (Woron.) Jenkins (1932)
  • Sphaceloma pyrinum (Peglion) Jenkins (1937)

Elsinoë pyri is a species of fungus in the family Elsinoaceae. It is a plant pathogen that grows on apple (Pyrus malus). First described scientifically by Nikolai Nikolaevich Woronichin in 1914 as a species of Plectodiscella,[2] the fungus was transferred to the genus Elsinoë by American mycologist Anna Eliza Jenkins in 1932.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Elsinoë pyri (Woron.) Jenkins, Journal of Agricultural Research 44: 696 (1932)". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  2. ↑ Woronichin NN. (1914). "Plectodiscella piri, der Vertreter einer neuen Ascomyceten-Gruppe". Mykologisches Zentralblatt (in German) 4: 225–33.
  3. ↑ Jenkins AE. (1932). "Elsinoë on apple and pear" (PDF). Journal of Agricultural Research 44: 689–700.

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