EPPO Global Database

EPPO Reporting Service no. 05 - 2017 Num. article: 2017/105

First report of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus in Bosnia and Herzegovina


In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hymenoscyphus fraxineus (formerly EPPO Alert List) was found for the first time in 2009 in a common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) plantation in Jelašinovci which had been established over a three-year period (from 2004 to 2007).
The situation of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus in Bosnia and Herzegovina can be described as follows: Present, only in some areas, first found in 2009 in Jelašinovci.


Sources

Stanivuković Z, Karadžić D, Milenković I (2014) [The first report of the parasitic fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus (Kowalski) Baral, Queloz, Hosoya on the common ash in Bosnia and Herzegovina]. Šumarstvo (3/4), 19–34 (in Serbian). http://www.srpskosumarskoudruzenje.org.rs/pdf/sumarstvo/2014_3-4/sumarstvo2014_3-4_rad02.pdf