Gymnosporangium clavipes
Appearance
Gymnosporangium clavipes | |
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A cedar-quince rust canker on a hawthorn branch | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Pucciniomycetes |
Order: | Pucciniales |
Family: | Gymnosporangiaceae |
Genus: | Gymnosporangium |
Species: | G. clavipes
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Binomial name | |
Gymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck, (1873)
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Synonyms | |
Gymnosporangium germinale F. Kern, (1908) |
Gymnosporangium clavipes is a plant pathogen, a fungus that causes cedar-quince rust. Similar to Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae and Gymnosporangium globosum, the fungus infects a wide range of Rosaceae, such as apple, hawthorn and quince trees, and also requires an evergreen host such as eastern red cedar or a number of other juniper species to complete its life cycle.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ James Schuster, Cedar-Quince Rust. Accessed July 16, 2008.
External links
[edit] Media related to Gymnosporangium clavipes at Wikimedia Commons