{{Short description|Species of fungus}} {{Speciesbox | image = | genus = Taphrina | species = potentillae | authority = (Farl.) Johanson (1886) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="urlMycoBank: Taphrina potentillae"/> | synonyms = ''Exoascus deformans'' var. ''potentillae'' <small>Farl. (1883)</small><br> ''Ascomyces potentillae'' <small>(Farl.) W.Phillips (1887)</small><br> ''Exoascus potentillae'' <small>(Farl.) Sacc. (1889)</small><br> ''Exoascus potentillae'' <small>(Farl.) Sacc. (1889)</small><br> ''Taphrina tormentillae'' <small>Rostr.</small> }}
'''''Taphrina potentillae''''' is a species of fungus in the family Taphrinaceae. A plant pathogen, it infects the flowers and leaves of species of the genera ''Potentilla'' and ''Parageum''. The species was first described under the name ''Exoascus deformans'' var. ''potentillae'' by American botanist William Farlow in 1883.<ref name=Farlow1883/>
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<ref name=Farlow1883>{{cite journal |author=Farlow WG. |title=Notes on some species in the third and eleventh centuries of Ellis' North American Fungi |journal=Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |year=1883 |volume=18 |pages=65–85 |doi=10.2307/25138686}}</ref>
<ref name="urlMycoBank: Taphrina potentillae">{{cite web |url=http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=235332 |title=''Taphrina potentillae'' (Farl.) Johanson 1886 |publisher=International Mycological Association |work=MycoBank |accessdate=2011-05-04}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{IndexFungorum|121201}}
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Category:Fungal plant pathogens and diseases Category:Taphrinomycetes Category:Fungi described in 1883 Category:Fungus species
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