Phytophthora inflata

Phytophthora inflata is an oomycete 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 Rhododendron ponticum.^[1] In the same year it was found in a nursery in Ohio also infecting Rhododendron.^[2]

Phytophthora inflata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Stramenopiles
Clade:	Pseudofungi
Phylum:	Oomycota
Class:	Oomycetes
Order:	Peronosporales
Family:	Peronosporaceae
Genus:	Phytophthora
Species:	P. inflata
Binomial name
Phytophthora inflata Caros. & Tucker, (1949)