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Podosphaera fusca (Fr.) U. Braun & Shishkoff, 2000 (a powdery mildew)

Warning: Identification questionable
Date: 25 August 2007
Location: Mid-west Yorkshire, England
Voucher: 25/08/2007[E]
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State: Infection
Record Summary: Powdery mildew on Broad-leaved Ragwort
Associated organism: on live leaf of Senecio fluviatilis
Identification Notes: Infected with Ampelomyces quisqualis.

Conidia: 15-19/9-10µm.

Cleistothecium with a single 8-spored ascus.

Images etc

magnified photograph Cleistothecia - with pycnidia of Ampelomyces quisqualis - enlarged 500 by 493 pixels
magnified photograph Cleistothecia - with pycnidia of Ampelomyces quisqualis - enlarged 500 by 482 pixels
magnified photograph Cleistothecia - with pycnidia of Ampelomyces quisqualis - magnified 500 by 277 pixels
magnified photograph Cleistothecia - with pycnidia of Ampelomyces quisqualis - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Cleistothecia - squash prep - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Cleistothecia - squash prep - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Cleistothecium - squash prep - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Conidia - magnified Good 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Conidia and cleistothecia - squash prep - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Conidia, with Ampelomyces pycnidium - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Conidia, with Ampelomyces pycnidium - magnified 500 by 333 pixels

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