Dothiorella ulmi

Dothiorella ulmi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Phylum:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Subclass:	Incertae sedis
Order:	Botryosphaeriales
Family:	Botryosphaeriaceae
Genus:	Dothiorella
Species:	D. ulmi
Binomial name
Dothiorella ulmi Verrall & C. May, Mycologia 29: 322 (1937)
Synonyms
Deuterophoma ulmi (Verrall & C. May) Goid. & Ruggieri Plectophomella ulmi (Verrall & C. May) Redfern & B. Sutton, (1981)

Dothiorella ulmi is a plant pathogen that causes die-back of elm. It was first identified in 1929 on American elm (Ulmus americana) and was thought to belong to the order Sphaeropsidales but was later described as Cephalosporium sp. before formally being identified as Dothiorella ulmi in 1937.^[1]

External links

• Index Fungorum
• USDA ARS Fungal Database

References

1. ^ Verrall, SF; May, C (1937). "A New Species of Dothiorella Causing Die-Back of Elm". Mycologia (Mycological Society of America) 29 (3): 321–324. doi:10.2307/3754290. JSTOR 3754290.