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Peronospora variabilis Gäum. 1919 [1918]

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Peronospora variabilis Gäum. 1919 [1918]
Peronospora variabilis Gäum. 1919 [1918]

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Exotic
Present
New Zealand
Political Region
Historically treated as a P. farinosa, and untypified, rejected name of uncertain application.

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Gäum.
Gäum.
1919
1918
62
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Peronospora variabilis Gäum. 1919 [1918]
species
Peronospora variabilis

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variabilis

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Yerkes and Shaw (1959) regarded the fungus present on Chenopodium and Spinacia as one and the same species. Downy mildew is common on Chenopodium throughout New Zealand. Although listed by Money (1961) as a troublesome disease of spinach it is rarely seen in New Zealand on this host.

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Peronospora variabilis Gäum. 1919 [1918]
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taxonomic status
Records of P. 'farinosa' on Tetragonia require re-evaluation, the taxon on Chenopodium ambrosioides is undescribed, and the mildew on Beta vulgaris is P. schachtii. [JAC 2019]

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1 January 2001
4 January 2020
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