Carlos Garcés Orejuela, Colombian plant pathologist (Cali 1915 – Medellín 2002)

With K.H. Fernow first report of potato black rot by Rosellinia or white shroud (1949)

Described Xanthomonas axonopodis, causative agent of bacterial leaf spot of Axonopus scoparius

With M.P. Starr. El agente causante de la gomosis bacterial del pasto imperial en Colombia. Rev. Fac. Nac. Agron. Medellín 12:73-83, 1950

DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA (in Estudios micologicos colombianos. Dothideales. Caldasia 2:75-87, 1941 & New or heterofore unreported species of the higher Ascomycetes from Colombia and Venezuela. Mycologia 36:429-59, 1944 (corrected in 37:389-90, 1944)

Genus

Phaeotrabutia 1941

Species (23)

Anisochora chardonii 1941

Asterina solanacearum 1944

Asterinella bredemeyerae 1944

Catacauma cabali 1941

Coccodiella miconiicola 1944

Lembosia perseae 1944

Meliola antioquensis 1944

Meliola venzeuelana 1944

Meliola xylosmaticola 1944

Meliola xylosmicola 1944

Microthyrium phoradendri 1944

Microthyrium rhombisporum 1944

Parodiopsis bicoronata 1944

Phaeotrabutia isabelae 1941

Phyllachora abutilonis 1944

Phyllachora chusqueana 1941

Phyllachora clavata 1944

Phyllachora gynericola 1944

Phyllachora murilloi 1941

Phyllachora rapaneicola 1941

Polyrhizon capparidis 1944

Schiffnerula robusta 1944

Sphaerodothis merianiae 1944

Uleodothis eupatoricola 1941