Colletotrichum trichellum

Colletotrichum • Glomerellales • Sordariomycetes • Ascomycota • fungi • plant diseases • pests-diseases-weeds

Colletotrichum trichellum symptoms on Hedera helix (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Elizabeth Bush, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Source: IPM Images

Colletotrichum trichellum (Fr.) Duke 1928

This fungus is widely distributed and causes an anthracnose disease of ivy (Hedera). It can also infect other plants. The leaf lesions are dark brown to black and typically round. Like in other Colletotrichum species, the acervuli are dark with black setae.

Publications covering Colletotrichum trichellum

Mycologia (2009) 101, 717-732
Jo Anne Crouch, Bruce B. Clarke, James F. White Jr. and Bradley I. Hillman (2009)
Systematic analysis of the falcate-spored graminicolous Colletotrichum and a description of six new species from warm-season grasses

• Other images of Colletotrichum trichellum (IPM Images - click to enlarge)
• 

  on Hedera helix - acervuli with erect, brown setae and masses of tan-colored conidia

• 

  on Hedera helix - dark fungal setae on leaf tissue

• 

  conidia