Kingdom Fungi Class Dothideomycetes Family Elsinoaceae Scientific name Elsinoë piri | Division Ascomycota Order Myriangiales Genus Elsinoe Rank Species | |
Similar Elsinoë, Sphaceloma, Elsinoë fawcettii, Elsinoë ampelina, Botryosphaeria | ||
Elsinoë pyri is a species of fungus in the family Elsinoaceae. It is a plant pathogen that grows on apple (Pyrus malus). First described scientifically by Nikolai Nikolaevich Woronichin in 1914 as a species of Plectodiscella, the fungus was transferred to the genus Elsinoë by American mycologist Anna Eliza Jenkins in 1932.
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