Gymnosporangium clavipes

Taxobox


image_caption= A cedar-quince rust canker on a hawthorn branch
name = "Gymnosporangium clavipes"
regnum = Fungi
phylum = Basidiomycota
classis = Urediniomycetes
subclassis = Incertae sedis
ordo = Uredinales
familia = Pucciniaceae
genus = "Gymnosporangium"
species = "G. clavipes"
binomial = "Gymnosporangium clavipes"
binomial_authority = Cooke & Peck, (1873)
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 eastern red cedar or a number of juniper species to complete its life cycle. [James Schuster, [http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/focus/cedarquincerust.html Cedar-Quince Rust] . Accessed July 16, 2008.]

External links

* [http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp Index Fungorum]
* [http://nt.ars-grin.gov/fungaldatabases USDA ARS Fungal Database]

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