Cystotheca indica

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Cystotheca indica
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Erysiphales
Family: Erysiphaceae
Genus: Cystotheca
Species:
C. indica
Binomial name
Cystotheca indica
M.S. Patil & Maham., 1999

Cystothecaindica is a species of powdery mildew in the family Erysiphaceae. It is found in Asia on plants in the genus Calophyllum . [1]

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Description

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 on their hosts. Cystothecaindica, like most Erysiphaceae, is highly host-specific and is only known to infect Calophyllum .

Taxonomy

The fungus was formally described in 1999 by M.S. Patil &and Mahamulkar. The type material was originally published under the name Arachnomyces nitidus . The type specimen was collected in India, the country from which the specific epithet is derived. According to Bradshaw et al. (2023) C. indica is insufficiently known and doubtful. [2]

References

  1. Braun, Uwe; Cook, Roger T. A. (2012). Taxonomic manual of the Erysiphales (powdery mildews). CBS biodiversity series. Utrecht: CBS-KNAW fungal biodiversity centre. ISBN   978-90-70351-89-2.
  2. Bradshaw, Michael; Braun, Uwe; Quijada, Luis; Coombes, Allen J.; Contreras-Paredes, Carlos; Pfister, Donald H. (2023-05-04). "Phylogeny and taxonomy of the genera of Erysiphaceae, part 3: Cystotheca". Mycologia. 115 (3): 427–436. doi:10.1080/00275514.2023.2194172. ISSN   0027-5514.