Exobasidium vaccinii, commonly known as “red leaf disease,” or “Azalea Gall,” is a biotrophic species of fungus that causes galls on ericaceous plant species, such as blueberry and azalea (Vaccinium and Rhododendron spp.). Exobasidium vaccinii is considered the type species of the Exobasidium genus.[1] As a member of the Ustilagomycota, it is a basidiomycete closely related to smut fungi. Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel first described the species in 1861 under the basionym Fusidium vaccinii,[2] but in 1867 Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin (often cited as “Woronin”) later placed it in the genus Exobasidium.[3] The type specimen is from Germany, and it is held in the Swedish Museum of Natural History.[4]Exobasidium vaccinii, in current definition from John Axel Nannfeldt in 1981, is limited on the host Vaccinium vitis-idaea.[1] This idea is used in most recent papers on E. vaccinii.
^ abPiątek, M., Lutz, M. & Welton, P. Exobasidium darwinii, a new Hawaiian species infecting endemic Vaccinium reticulatum in Haleakala National Park. Mycol Progress 11, 361–371 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-011-0751-4
^Braun, Uwe; Bensch, Konstanze (2019). "Annotated list of taxonomic novelties published in "Fungi Rhenani Exsiccati" Fasc. 1 to 7, issued by K. W. G. L. Fuckel in 1863". Schlechtendalia. 36: 30.
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