Fungalpedia – Note 2374, Golovinomyces
Golovinomyces. (U. Braun) Heluta.
Citation when using this data: Yuan HS et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
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Classification: Erysiphaceae, Helotiales, Leotiomycetidae, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Notes: Golovinomyces had been treated as one of the three sections of genus Erysiphe (Braun 1978). Braun (1999) proposed to raise Erysiphe sect. Golovinomyces to the generic level with Erysiphe cichoracearum DC. as the type species, and moved it to a newly established tribe Golovinomyceteae based on the distinct anamorphic characters and the results of molecular phylogenetic analyses (Braun and Takamatsu 2000). Up to 2283 species of plants from 58 families mostly herbaceous plants such as the Asteraceae, Bolaginaceae, Scrophulariaceae and Cucurbitaceae can be infected by species of Golovinomyces (Amano, 1986). Many studies with morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses of this genus were conducted including the studies of evolutionary lineages of the G. cichoracearum complex (Cunnington et al. 2010), evolution of host-parasite relationships of Golovinomyces (Matsuda and Takamatsu 2003; Takamatsu et al. 2013), the spliting of the complex G. biocellatus (Scholler et al. 2016),
G. cynoglossi (Braun et al. 2018), G. orontii (Braun et al. 2019) and G. ambrosiae (Qiu et al. 2020a), and the epitypification of G. tabaci (Qiu et al. 2020b). G. ambrosiae, G. spadiceus and G. circumfusus can not be split based only on the ITS and 28S rDNA sequences (Takamatsu et al. 2013). Recent research on the complex G. ambrosiae conducted by Qiu et al. (2020b) illustrated that multilocus phylogeny and further morphological examinations are necessary to split this complex.
Type species: Golovinomyces cichoracearum (DC.) Heluta [as ‘cichoraceorum‘], Ukr. bot. Zh. 45(5): 62 (1988).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Golovinomyces.
Figure 1 – Symptom of powdery moldew on Monarda didyma and microscopic structures of Golovinomyces monardae (HMJAU-PM91795, new geographical record). a White, effused powdery layers on diseased plant leaf. b Hyphal appressorium with distinct nipple-shaped. c Conidiophore. d, e conidia. f, g Geminated conidium. Scale bars: a–g = 20 µm
References
Braun U (1978) Beitrag zur Systematik und Nomenklatur der Erysiphales. Feddes Repertorium 88:655–665
Entry by
Hai-Sheng Yuan, CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110164, People’s Republic of China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China
Published online 30 April 2026