Pucciniastrum coryli
| Pucciniastrum coryli | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Pucciniomycetes |
| Order: | Pucciniales |
| Family: | Pucciniastraceae |
| Genus: | Pucciniastrum |
| Species: | P. coryli
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| Binomial name | |
| Pucciniastrum coryli Kom., (1899)
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Pucciniastrum coryli is a fungal plant pathogen infecting hazelnuts. It forms ochraceous rust pustules on the leaves. Also commonly known as hazel rust.
It is known to affect Corylus sieboldiana, Corylus colurna and Corylus heterophylla.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Perley Spaulding Foreign Diseases of Forest Trees of the World: An Annotated List (August 1961), p. 303, at Google Books