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Elsinoë pyri

Elsinoë pyri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Myriangiales
Family: Elsinoaceae
Genus: Elsinoe
Species: E. pyri
Binomial name
Elsinoë pyri
(Woron.) Jenkins (1932)
Synonyms
  • Plectodiscella piri Woron. (1914)
  • Elsinoë piri (Woron.) Jenkins (1932)
  • Sphaceloma pyrinum (Peglion) Jenkins (1937)

Elsinoë pyri is a species of fungus in the family Elsinoaceae. It is a plant pathogen that grows on apple (Pyrus malus). First described scientifically by Nikolai Nikolaevich Woronichin in 1914 as a species of Plectodiscella, the fungus was transferred to the genus Elsinoë by American mycologist Anna Eliza Jenkins in 1932.



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