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Pathogen

Stemphylium spp.

Overview

Scientific name

Stemphylium spp.

Genus

Stemphylium

EPPO code

STEMSP

Common name

Stemphylium leaf spot

Synonyms

Description

Commonly identified by the distinctive spores. Described in the ISTA 'Common Laboratory Seed Health Testing Methods for Detecting Fungi' as conidia being smooth walled, a few minutely echunulate, and/or verrucose, and appearing as rpundish square to rectangular packets of different sizes, with both transverse and longitudinal septa, pale to dark brown.