Pleiochaeta setosa. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].
Abstract A description is provided for Pleiochaeta setosa. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: Parasitic on Crotalaria, Cytisus, Lupinus, Ornithopus and Phaseolus. DISEASE: Causes leaf, stem and pod lesions on Cytisus and Lupinus spp. ; also recorded on Crotalaria and Phaseolus vulgaris. On pods and leaves the lesions are circular to very irregular, varying considerably in size, up to 1 cm or more diameter. They are characteristically zonate and result in dieback and wilt. The seeds are attacked and there is a brown discoloration of the seed coat. On branches and leading shoots the lesions are elongate-oval, up to 2 cm long, with sharply alternating light brown and black zones (13, 166; 16, 636; 17, 185, 686; 19, 99; 28, 457; 29, 29; 37, 724; 50, 1863). GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Widespread in Europe; also Africa (South Africa); Asia (Israel, Japan, W. Malaysia, Sri Lanka); Australia (NSW, Qd, W. Australia); America (south-east USA, Brazil) (CMI Map 243, ed. 2, 1967). TRANSMISSION: Seed-borne (17, 824; 19, 99; 40, 111).