View source for Albugo candida

{{Taxobox
| color = khaki
| name = ''Albugo candida''
| image = Albugo candida.jpg
| image_width = 200px
| image_caption = ''Albugo candida'' on ''Capsella bursa-pastoris''
| domain = [[Eukaryota]]
| unranked_phylum = [[Chromista]]
| phylum = [[Heterokont]]ophyta
| classis = Water molds [[Oomycete]]s
| ordo = [[Peronosporales]]
| familia = [[Albuginaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Albugo]]''
| species = '''''A. candida'''''
| binomial = ''Albugo candida''
| binomial_authority = (Pers.) Kuntze
| synonyms = 
''Aecidium candidum'' <small>Pers. (1797)</small><br>
''Albugo cruciferarum'' <small>(DC.) Gray (1821)</small><br>
''Cystopus candidus'' <small>(Pers.) Lév. (1847)</small><br>
''Uredo candida'' <small>Pers.) Fr., (1832)</small><br>
''Uredo cruciferarum'' <smallDC.</small><br>
}}

'''White rust''', '''''Albugo candida''''' is a [[species]] from family [[Albuginaceae]].  However, all the other species in this family are called "white rust."  Some treatments of this organism still refer to it as a type of [[fungus]]. 

Synonyms<ref>Species Fungorum http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=122113 accessed March 17 2007</ref>:
* ''Albugo candidans''
* ''Aecidium candidum'' Pers., (1797)
* ''Albugo cruciferarum'' (DC.) Gray, (1821)
* ''Cystopus candidans''
* ''Cystopus candidus'' (Pers.) Lév., (1847)
* ''Uredo candida'' (Pers.) Fr., (1832)
* ''Uredo candida'' Rabenh.
* ''Uredo cruciferarum'' DC.

Hosts:
* [[Shepherd's Purse]] ''Capsella bursa-pastoris''.
* [[Brassicaceae]] species. 

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==References==
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