Venturia pyrina

Venturia pyrina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Venturiaceae
Genus:	Venturia
Species:	V. pyrina
Binomial name
*Venturia pyrina* Aderh. (1896)
Synonyms
Endostigme pyrina (Aderh.) Syd. (1923) Fusicladium pyrorum (Lib.) Fuckel [as 'pirinum'], (1870) Fusicladium virescens Bonord. (1851) Helminthosporium pyrorum Lib. [as 'Helmisporium'], (1832) Megacladosporium pyrinum (Lib.) Vienn.-Bourg. (1949) Venturia pyrina f. piri Bref. (1891)

Venturia pyrina is a species of fungus in the Venturiaceae family. A plant pathogen, it causes scab or black spot of pear. It has a widespread distribution in temperate and subtropical regions wherever pears are grown.^[1]

References

^ Sivanesan A, Waller JM. (1974). "Venturia pirina". CMI Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria (Kew, Surrey, England: Commonwealth Mycological Institute) (404).