Published June 4, 2025 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Erysiphe malvae Heluta

  • 1. Engineering Research Center of Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Ministry of Education, Jilin Agricultural University, No. 2888 Xincheng Street, Changchun 130118, Jilin Province, China
  • 2. Laboratory of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Jilin Agricultural University, No. 2888 Xincheng Street, Changchun 130118, Jilin Province, China
  • 3. Engineering Research Center of Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Ministry of Education, Jilin Agricultural University, No. 2888 Xincheng Street, Changchun 130118, Jilin Province, China & College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Chifeng University, Chifeng 024000, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops in Northwestern Oasis, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Plant Protection Scientific Observation and Experiment Station of Korla, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety, Institute of Plant Protection, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi 830091, Xinjiang, China

Description

Erysiphe malvae Heluta, Ukrayins’k. Bot. Zhurn. 47 (4): 75, 1990.

Fig. 7

Description.

Mycelium on leaves and stems, effuse or in irregular powdery layers, white, persistent; hyphae 3–8 μm wide; hyphal appressoria nipple-shaped to lobed. Asexual morph: Conidiophores erect, sometimes slightly flexuous, 62–116 (– 133) × 5–9 μm (without conidia), foot cells cylindrical, straight, 33–69 × 5–9 μm, followed by 1–2 cells, significantly shorter or longer than the foot cells, sometimes about as long as foot cells; conidia single, cylindrical, ellipsoid-cylindrical, 25–42 (– 46) × 12–18 μm, length / width ratio 1.6–4.0, colorless; the germ tube subterminal, medium length, club-shaped, apex simple or somewhat bent and swollen.

Host.

Malva pusilla (Malvaceae).

Distribution.

Asia (China, Iran and Israel), Europe (Ukraine).

Additional material examined.

China, Yunnan Prov. • 1; Kunming City; 25°6'51"n, 102°45'9"e; ca. 1890 m a. s. l.; 26 Jun. 2019; Shu-Rong Tang & Jing Feng leg.; on M. pusilla; HMJAU -PM 92233. • 1; Kunming City; 25°3'27"n, 102°41'55"e; alt. 1920 m a. s. l.; 27 Jun. 2019; Shu-Rong Tang & Jing Feng leg.; HMJAU -PM 92234.

Notes.

Erysiphe malvae was initially described from Europe (Ukraine) and subsequently documented in Asia (Iran and Israel), with its most recent record in Nepal (Adhikari 2021). This represents the first confirmed occurrence of this pathogen in China, where the specimen was collected in Yunnan Province in 2019. Morphological comparison of the Chinese anamorphs revealed fundamental congruence with the original description by Braun and Cook (2012), except for a discrepancy in subsequent cell count: our specimens exhibited 1–2 cells following the foot cells, compared to the 1–3 cells reported in the type description.

Sequence-based verification confirmed the taxonomic identity with E. malvae (on Malva pusilla), with its phylogenetic position within the E. betae / E. heraclei / E. malvae complex clade (Figs 1, 2).

Notes

Published as part of Zhang, Zhao-Yang, Wu, Xue-Lian, Lv, Xiao-Xue, Liu, Tie-Zhi, Jin, Dan-Ni, Liu, Li, Wang, Shuang-Bao, Feng, Jing, Hsiang, Tom, Li, Yu & Liu, Shu-Yan, 2025, Discover hidden taxa of Erysiphe section Erysiphe fungi (Ascomycota, Erysiphaceae) based on morphology and multilocus phylogeny in China, pp. 119-146 in MycoKeys 118 on pages 119-146, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.118.154217

Files

Files (2.6 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:7fa422048069a15e10a8acc2b5ed2088
2.6 kB Download

System files (20.2 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:8de39a2df291d36389e33e4d041ab1ff
20.2 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HMJAU
Material sample ID
HMJAU-PM 92233 , HMJAU-PM 92234
Event date
2019-06-26 , 2019-06-27
Verbatim event date
2019-06-26 , 2019-06-27
Scientific name authorship
Heluta
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Order
Helotiales
Family
Erysiphaceae
Genus
Erysiphe
Species
malvae
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Adhikari MK (2021) New record of two parasitic fungi on Malva sylvestris L. from Nepal. Journal of Plant Research 19: 12–17.
  • Braun U, Cook RTA (2012) Taxonomic manual of the Erysiphales (powdery mildews). CBS Biodiversity Series No. 11, Utrecht the Netherland, 707 pp.