Protomyces macrosporus

Protomyces macrosporus
Galls on the lower surface of Aegopodium podagraria leaf
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Taphrinomycetes
Order: Taphrinales
Family: Protomycetaceae
Genus: Protomyces
Species:
P. macrosporus
Binomial name
Protomyces macrosporus
Unger, 1834

Protomyces macrosporus is an ascomycete fungus that forms galls on Aegopodium podagraria, Anthriscus sylvestris, Angelica sylvestris, Daucus carota and some other members of the family Umbelliferae or Apiaceae, commonly known as umbellifers.[1] Fourteen genera within the Asteraceae are also galled by P. macrosporus.[2] The description of the genus was based on Protomyces macrosporus as the type genus for the family Protomycetaceae.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference R222 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Robert Nicholas Trigiano, Mark Townsend Windham & Alan S. Windham (2004). Plant Pathology: Concepts and Laboratory Exercises. CRC Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-8493-1037-9.
  3. ^ K. Tubaki (1957). "Biological and cultural studies of three species of Protomyces". Mycologia. 49 (1): 44–54. doi:10.2307/3755727. JSTOR 3755727.