Venturia pyrina

Venturia pyrina is a species of fungus in the family Venturiaceae. A plant pathogen, it causes scab or black spot of pear. It has a widespread distribution in temperate and subtropical regions wherever pears are grown.^[1]

Venturia pyrina
Pear scab
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Venturiaceae
Genus:	Venturia
Species:	V. pyrina
Binomial name
Venturia pyrina Aderh. (1896)
Synonyms
Endostigme pyrina (Aderh.) Syd. (1923) Fusicladium pyrorum (Lib.) Fuckel [as 'pirinum'], (1870) Fusicladium virescens Bonord. (1851) Helminthosporium pyrorum Lib. [as 'Helmisporium'], (1832) Megacladosporium pyrinum (Lib.) Vienn.-Bourg. (1949) Venturia pyrina f. piri Bref. (1891)