Marssonina salicicola (Bres.) Magnus 1906

Details

Name scientific

Marssonina salicicola (Bres.) Magnus, Hedwigia 45 89 (1906)

Preferred name

Drepanopeziza sphaerioides (Pers.) Höhn. 1917

Nomenclature

Authors

(Bres.) Magnus

Original authors

Bres.

Combination authors

Magnus

Publication place

Magnus, P.W. 1906: Notwendige Umänderung des Names der Pilzgattung Marssonia Fisch. Hedwigia 45: 88-91.

Year published

1906

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Marssonia salicicola Bres. 1892

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Marssonina salicicola

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Leotiomycetes

Order

Helotiales

Family

Drepanopezizaceae

Genus

Marssonina

Species

salicicola

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Salix ×argentinensis Ragonese & F.R. Alberti

Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)

has host

Salix alba × matsudana

Pennycook, S.R. (1989)

has host

Salix ×argentinensis Ragonese & F.R. Alberti

Ridley, G.S.; Dick, M.A. (2001)

Descriptions

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

Marssonina salicicola (Bres.) Magnus 1906

Notes

Murray (1926) described the disease as serious on weeping and crack willows in the Nelson district, where it caused both stem cankers and leaf spots. In some seasons it is common throughout New Zealand, causing distortions of young shoots as well as an early leaf fall.

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.

Marssonina salicicola (Bres.) Magnus 1906

Description

Type: Foliicolous Fungi; Description: Conidiomata acervular, scattered to gregarious, circular at first, later confluent, subepidermal, partly erumpent, white, 60–210 μm in diameter; on small (up to 1 mm in diameter), light purplish brown, circular leaf spots without a definite margin, on both sides (mainly the lower surface) of leaves and on small twigs; leaf spots often confluent, covering the whole lower surface of the leaf. Conidia clavate to pyriform, often curved, unequally 1-septate, 11–16 × 3–7 μm, smooth, hyaline.

Distribution

Distribution: Auckland, Coromandel, Bay of Plenty, Taupo, Wanganui, Gisborne, Wairarapa, Nelson, Buller, Westland, Marlborough, Kaikoura, South Canterbury, Otago Lakes, Dunedin, Southland.; 1st Record: Murray (1926a).

Notes

Pathogenicity

Significance: Locally important. The cause of premature defoliation and dieback in Salix babylonica (Spiers 1998).; Host(s): Salix alba var. alba, S. alba var. vitellina, S. alba × matsudana, S. ×argentinensis, S. babylonica, S. fragilis.