Botryotinia fuckeliana

Botryotinia fuckeliana is a plant pathogen, and the causal agent of gray mold disease.

Botryotinia fuckeliana
Botryotinia fuckeliana on a Goudreinet apple
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Helotiales
Family: Sclerotiniaceae
Genus: Botryotinia
Species:
B. fuckeliana
Binomial name
Botryotinia fuckeliana
(de Bary) Whetzel, (1945)
Synonyms

Botrytis fuckeliana N.F. Buchw., (1949)
Botrytis gemella (Bonord.) Sacc., (1881)
Botrytis grisea (Schwein.) Fr., (1832)
Botrytis vulgaris (Pers.) Fr., (1832)
Haplaria grisea Link, (1809)
fuckeliana de Bary
Phymatotrichum gemellum Bonord., (1851)
Polyactis vulgaris Pers., (1809)
Sclerotinia fuckeliana (de Bary) Fuckel, (1870)

The specific epithet was named by mycologist Heinrich Anton de Bary in honor of another mycologist, Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel.

This species is better known as its anamorph, Botrytis cinerea.

Host for various diseases

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