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Exobasidium rhododendri (Fuckel) C.E. Cramer, Bot. Ztg. 32: 324 (1874)

Exobasidium vaccinii var. rhododendri Fuckel, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. Wiesbaden 27-28: 7 (1873) [1873-74]

Habitat: On leaves of Rhododendron ferrugineum, R. hirsutum and hybrids between them, producing large reddish 'apple galls'.

Notes: In Britain usually found on planted shrubs in gardens, apparently genuinely rare. Common in continental Europe, on wild plants in alpine habitat.

Distribution: E: !, S: !, W: !, ROI: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 102807; Scotland: K(M) 102814

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 74, pl. 38

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