Venturia carpophila

Venturia carpophila
	Elberta peaches damaged by Venturia carpophila
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Venturiaceae
Genus:	Venturia
Species:	V. carpophila
Binomial name
	Venturia carpophila; E.E.Fisher (1961)
Synonyms
	Cladosporium carpophilum ; Fusicladium amygdali Ducomet (1907); Fusicladium carpophilum (Thum.) Oudem. (1900); Fusicladium pruni Ducomet (1907); Fusicladosporium carpophilum ; Megacladosporium carpophilum (Thum.) Viennot-Bourg. (1949); Thelephora vorticosa

Venturia carpophila is a species of fungus in the family Venturiaceae. A plant pathogen, it causes freckle, black spot, peach scab or black scab of peach. It has a cosmopolitan distribution. The species was described as new to science in 1961 by the Australian mycologist Eileen E. Fisher.[1]

References

Fisher EE. (1961). "Venturia carpophila sp. nov., the ascigerous state of the apricot freckle fungus". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 44 (3): 337–42. doi:10.1016/s0007-1536(61)80026-0.

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[Fisher1961-1] Fisher EE. (1961). "Venturia carpophila sp. nov., the ascigerous state of the apricot freckle fungus". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 44 (3): 337–42. doi:10.1016/s0007-1536(61)80026-0.