Phytophthora inflata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
(unranked): | SAR |
Superphylum: | Heterokonta |
Class: | Oomycetes |
Subclass: | Incertae sedis |
Order: | Peronosporales |
Family: | Pythiaceae |
Genus: | Phytophthora |
Species: | P. inflata |
Binomial name | |
Phytophthora inflata Caros. & Tucker, (1949) |
Phytophthora inflata is a plant pathogen. It was first identified in 1949 in Michigan, USA causing a pit canker on elm trees. It was found in the United Kingdom in 1992 in the roots of Sambucus tenuifolium and Lilac (Syringa vulgaris), in 2003 it was found in a UK nursery infecting a Rhododendron ponticum. In the same year it was found in a nursery in Ohio also infecting Rhododendron.