Phyllactinia angulata

Phyllactinia angulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Leotiomycetes
Order:	Helotiales
Family:	Erysiphaceae
Genus:	Phyllactinia
Species:	P. angulata
Binomial name
	Phyllactinia angulata; (E.S. Salmon) S. Blumer, (1933)
Synonyms
	List Phyllactinia corylea var. angulata E.S. Salmon, Annls mycol. 3(6): 500 (1906); Phyllactinia suffulta var. angulata (E.S. Salmon) Sacc. & Trotter, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 22(1): 378 (1913); ;

Phyllactinia angulata is a plant pathogen infecting chestnut, beech, oak and elm trees in North America with powdery mildew.^[3] Collections on elm were segregated into a new variety, Phyllactinia angulata var. ulmi.

Reports of this species infecting pistachio^[4] are probably instead referrable to Phyllactinia pistaciae, described in 2003.^[5]

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