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Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. 1851

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Ascochyta caricae Rabenh., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 9 455 (1851)
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. 1851

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Rabenh.
Rabenh.
Rabenhorst, G.L. 1851: Botanische Zeitung 9
1851
455
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Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. 1851
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Ascochyta caricae

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Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Pleosporales
Didymellaceae
Ascochyta
caricae

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Dingley, J.M. 1969: Records of plant diseases in New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Bulletin. 192.

Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. 1851

In Auckland, Ascochyta caricae has been found on several occasions to be associated with a fruit rot of mature fruits, sometimes accompanied by a leaf spot. Figs are rarely grown as a commercial crop and are rarely sprayed with any fungicide.
Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) 2005: Fungi on trees and shrubs in New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. 4. Fungal Diversity Press.

Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. 1851

Type: Foliicolous Fungi; Description: Conidiomata pycnidial, scattered, immersed, subglobose, scarlet red; on reddish brown, roughly circular leaf spots 10–20 mm in diameter. Conidia oval to cylindrical, often irregular in shape, 1-septate, 9–15 × 3–5 μm, smooth, hyaline.
Distribution: Auckland.; 1st Record: Brien & Dingley (1955).
Significance: Leaf spots are of little significance but the fungus has also been recorded as the cause of rot in mature fruit on several occasions (Dingley 1969).; Host(s): Ficus carica.

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Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. 1851
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh.
Allescher, A. (1898)
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. 1851
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. (1851)
Brien, R.M.; Dingley, J.M. (1959)
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. 1851
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. (1851)
Dingley, J.M. (1969)
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. 1851
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. (1851)
Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. 1851
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. (1851)
Pennycook, S.R. (1989)
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. 1851
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. (1851)
Pennycook, S.R.; Galloway, D.J. (2004)
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. 1851
Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. (1851)
Rabenhorst, G.L. (1851)

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Ascochyta caricae Rabenh. 1851
New Zealand
Auckland
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24 June 2001
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