Dothiorella ulmi
Dothiorella ulmi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Phylum: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Dothideomycetes |
Subclass: | Incertae sedis |
Order: | Botryosphaeriales |
Family: | Botryosphaeriaceae |
Genus: | Dothiorella |
Species: | D. ulmi |
Binomial name | |
Dothiorella ulmi Verrall & C. May, Mycologia 29: 322 (1937) | |
Synonyms | |
Deuterophoma ulmi (Verrall & C. May) Goid. & Ruggieri |
Dothiorella ulmi is a plant pathogen that causes die-back of elm. It was first identified in 1929 on American elm (Ulmus americana) and was thought to belong to the order Sphaeropsidales but was later described as Cephalosporium sp. before formally being identified as Dothiorella ulmi in 1937.[1]
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References
- ↑ Verrall, SF; May, C (1937). "A New Species of Dothiorella Causing Die-Back of Elm". Mycologia (Mycological Society of America) 29 (3): 321–324. doi:10.2307/3754290. JSTOR 3754290.