BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Exobasidium rhododendri (Fuckel) C.E. Cramer, 1874 (a redleaf fungus)
| Notes (MWS) | A parasitic basidiomycete that forms subglobose, fleshy, pale greenish to red galls up to 3cm across on various cultivated Rhododendrons (*Rhododendron ferrugineum*, *Rhododendron hirsutum* and their hybrids). |
Suggested Literature
Exobasidium rhododendri may be covered by literature listed under:
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BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers) |
USTILAGINOMYCETES (ustilaginomycetes) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Exobasidium rhododendri is associated with:
| fruitbody | Rhododendron ferrugineum - a cultivated rhododendron (Ericaceae) | fruitbody causes gall of leaf | 
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Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [produces large reddish "Apple Galls"] Breitenbach J., & Kränzlin F., 1986 |
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| fruitbody | Rhododendron hirsutum - a cultivated rhododendron (Ericaceae) | fruitbody causes gall of leaf |
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Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [produces large reddish "Apple Galls"] Breitenbach J., & Kränzlin F., 1986 |
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| fruitbody | Rhododendron x laetivirens - a group of cultivated rhododendron hybrids (Ericaceae) | fruitbody causes gall of leaf | Hansen, L & Knudsen, H, 1997 |
Associated with Exobasidium rhododendri:
Exobasidium rhododendri may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
References
| Breitenbach J., & Kränzlin F., 1986 | Non-gilled Fungi |
| Hansen, L & Knudsen, H, 1997 | Nordic Macromycetes, Vol 3. (Hetero., Aphylloph., Gastero.) |
| Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota |
