ASCOMYCOTINA

• HEMIASCOMYCETIDAE: asci arising naked; not in ascocarps; with three orders: Endomycetales, Taphrinales, Protomycetales (not covered)
  • Taphrinales: asci arise from binucleate cells directly from the mycelium

Taphrina occidentalis Causative agent of the deformation of alder catkins and of curl of Alder leaves. Taphrina occidentalis

proliferations in young buds	proliferations in catkins.

Taphrina deformans Causative agent of Peach Leaf Curl and aslo causes peach mummies. Look at herbarium material of peach mummies and preserved material of leaf curl. What causes the mummies and the curl.

layer of asci in peach leaf
Taphrina deformans

classification system (places icons into orders)

index to genera/species