Coniochaeta prunicola – causal factor involved in health state decline of selected trees of the genus Prunus

Abstract

The record of Coniochaeta prunicola Damm & Crous (Coniochaetales, Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota)
as a pathogen of host trees was described and illustrated from Nitra. This pathogen was isolated from
symptomatic twigs and leaves of Prunus laurocerasus L. as well as from symptomatic leaves of Prunus
persica Mill. and based on morphological attributes identified as a causative agent of this trees damage. C.
prunicola is characterized by dark brown ascomata clothed with setae, the fasciculate, unitunicate, cylindrical
asci and broadly almond-shaped, ellipsoidal ascospores with a longitudinal germ slit.