Phyllosticta citricarpa (McAlpine) Aa 1973

Details

Name scientific

Phyllosticta citricarpa (McAlpine) Aa 1973

Preferred name

Phyllosticta citricarpa (McAlpine) Aa 1973

Taxonomy reference

Wikee, S.; Udayanga, D.; Crous, P.W.; Chukeatirote, E.; McKenzie, E.H.C.; Bahkali, A.H.; Dai, D.; Hyde, K.D. 2011: Phyllosticta—an overview of current status of species recognition. Fungal Diversity 51: 43-61.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Recorded in error

New Zealand

Political Region

Sensu NZ = Guignardia mangiferae

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Original authors

McAlpine

Authors

(McAlpine) Aa

Publication place

Aa, H.A. van der 1973: Studies in Phyllosticta I. Studies in Mycology. 5.

Year published

1973

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Phoma citricarpa McAlpine 1899

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Phyllosticta citricarpa

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Dothideomycetes

Order

Botryosphaeriales

Family

Phyllostictaceae

Genus

Phyllosticta

Species

citricarpa

Synonyms

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Citrus

Johnston, P.R.; Fullerton, R.A. (1988)

has host

Citrus

Young, J.M.; Fletcher, M.J. (1988)

has host

Citrus ×tangelo J.W.Ingram & H.E.Moore

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

has host

Citrus

Guarnaccia, Vladimiro; Gehrmann, Thies et al. (2019)

isolated from

Citrus

ICMP (1 records from [Not available].)

isolated from

Citrus ×sinensis (L.) Osbeck

ICMP (1 records from [Not available].)

isolated from

Citrus reticulata Blanco

ICMP (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Citrus

PDD (7 records from [Not available].)

has host

Citrus ×aurantium L.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Citrus ×sinensis (L.) Osbeck

PDD (11 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

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

Phoma citricarpa McAlpine 1899

Notes

Records of this fungus in New Zealand are known only as occurring on imported Australian grown sweet oranges.

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.

Phyllosticta citricarpa (McAlpine) Aa 1973

Description

Type: Foliicolous Fungi; Description: Conidiomata pycnidial, densely scattered, subepidermal, globose, brown, 0.1–0.3 mm in diameter, with a conspicuous papilla; on leaves without any definite leaf spots, also on petioles, twigs, and fruit. Conidia obovoid to elliptical, 0-septate, 6–13 × 5–9 μm, smooth, hyaline; with an apical, slimy appendage, 5–15 μm long.

Distribution

Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Bay of Plenty.; 1st Record: Pennycook (1989: as Guignardia citricarpa).

Notes

Pathogenicity

Significance: The cause of ‘black spot’ on citrus fruit, a serious disease in many parts of the world (Smith et al. 1988) but not in New Zealand, where only weakly pathogenic forms appear to be present.; Host(s): Citrus grandis × reticulata, C. ×tangelo.