| Phytophthora inflata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| (unranked): | SAR |
| Superphylum: | Heterokonta |
| Class: | Oomycetes |
| Subclass: | Incertae sedis |
| Order: | Peronosporales |
| Family: | Pythiaceae |
| Genus: | Phytophthora |
| Species: | P. inflata |
| Binomial name | |
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Phytophthora inflata Caros. & Tucker, (1949) |
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Phytophthora inflata is a plant pathogen. It was first identified in 1949 in Michigan, USA causing a pit canker on elm trees. It was found in the United Kingdom in 1992 in the roots of Sambucus tenuifolium and Lilac (Syringa vulgaris), in 2003 it was found in a UK nursery infecting a Rhododendron ponticum. In the same year it was found in a nursery in Ohio also infecting Rhododendron.