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Exobasidium splendidum
Nomenclature
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Family: ExobasidiaceaeGenus: Exobasidium
Species:
Exobasidium splendidum
SUMMARY
Infected shoots usually clustered, more rarely scattered or solitary, slightly elongated. Leaves moderately enlarged, especially lengthwise, soft with revolute margins, bright pinkish red all over, eventually becoming chalk-white, the hymenium dense, covering the entire undersurface of the leaf. Basidia large, 6-8 µm diam., with 2 sterigmata. Basidiospores (15-)20-27 x 6.0-11.5 µm, broadly cylindric-ellipsoidal to subpyriform, permanently aseptate. Conidia not known.