Teratosphaeria cryptica
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Authors: P.W. Crous et al.
Source: Studies in Mycology (2019) 94, p. 266
Teratosphaeria cryptica (Cooke) Crous & U. Braun 2007 - (crinkle leaf disease of eucalypt)
This fungus infects eucalypt trees in Australia and New Zealand, and can cause outbreaks there. In particular, young expanding leaves become infected, and are then often deformed and crinkled (crinkle leaf disease). The leaf lesions vary in colour (red-brown to dark grey), depending on the host species and the infection status. T. cryptica also infects young twigs and stems in some Eucalyptus species.
The ascospores are 2–3- or multiseriate, colourless, ellipsoidal with rounded ends, 1-septate, constricted at median septum, 9–17.5 × 2–5.5 μm. Conidia are formed singly and are subhyaline, smooth-walled, cylindrical, straight or curved, with an obtuse apex and a truncate base with a marginal frill. Their average size is 10-15 x 4-5 μm (P.W. Crous et al., 2019).
Synonyms:
Colletogloeopsis nubilosum
Colletogloeum nubilosum
Kirramyces nubilosum
Mycosphaerella cryptica
Readeriella nubilosum
