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Botryotinia fuckeliana

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Fungi

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Higher classification
  
Botrytis

Subclass
  
Leotiomycetidae

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Botryotinia fuckeliana fungimyspeciesinfositesfungimyspeciesinfofi

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Botrytis, Alternaria, Sclerotinia, Rhizoctonia solani, Botryotinia

Botryotinia fuckeliana is a plant pathogen, and the causal agent of gray mold disease.

The specific epithet was named by mycologist Heinrich Anton de Bary in honor of another mycologist, Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel.

This species is better known as its anamorph, Botrytis cinerea.

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Botryotinia fuckeliana Wikipedia