Table 4.
Host range of Phytophthora nicotianae Breda de Haan within Orchidaceae.
| Host | Disease caused | Geographical distribution |
|---|---|---|
| Aranda sp. | black rot | Malaysia (Liu, 1977) |
| Ascocenda sp. | black rot | Thailand (Takahito et al., 1979) |
| Cattleya hybrid | shoot rot | Australia (Forsberg, 1985) |
| Cattleya sp. | seedling blight, leaf and flower spots, leaf, heart, and stem rot and black rot, and pseudobulb/ shoot rot | Hawaii, USA (Hine, 1962); Australia (Duff and Daly, 2002, Daly et al., 2013); Hawaii, USA (Uchida and Aragaki, 1991); Taiwan (Deng et al., 2015) |
| Cymbidium ensifolium | leaf blight/black rot/death of the plant | Taiwan (Ann, 1995; Hsu et al., 2002) |
| Cymbidium kanran | black rot | Korea (Cho and Shin, 2004) |
| Cymbidium rubrigemmum | leaf blight/black rot/death of the plant | Taiwan (Ann, 1995; Hsu et al., 2002) |
| Cymbidium sinense | leaf blight/black rot/death of the plant | Taiwan (Ann, 1995; Hsu et al., 2002) |
| Cymbidium sp. | root rot, leaf blight | Hawaii, USA (Uchida and Aragaki, 1991; Zeng et al., 2009) |
| Dendrobium aurantiacum | root and basal stem rot leading to blight | Yunnan Province, China, (Tao et al., 2011b) |
| Dendrobium candidum | root rot, wilting, leading to blight | Zhejiang province, China (Zhang et al., 2006; Li et al., 2008) |
| Dendrobium chrysanthum | root and basal stem rot leading to blight | Yunnan Province, China (Tao et al., 2011b) |
| Dendrobium chrysotoxum | root and basal stem rot leading to blight | Yunnan Province, China (Tao et al., 2011b) |
| Dendrobium thyrsiflorum | root and basal stem rot leading to blight | Yunnan Province, China (Tao et al., 2011b) |
| Dendrobium phalaenopsis | leaf blight/black rot/death of the plant | Taiwan (Ann, 1995) |
| Dendrobium sp. | top rot, stem/shoot rot, seedling blight, leaf and flower spots, leaf, heart, and stem rot, and black rot | Australia (Forsberg, 1985); Mauritius (Wiehe, 1948; Orieux and Felix, 1968; Erwin and Ribeiro, 1996); Hawaii, USA (Uchida and Aragaki, 1991; Uchida, 1994); Taiwan (Ann, 1995) |
| Epidendrum sp. | leaf, stem rot, and black rot | Hawaii, USA (Uchida and Aragaki, 1991) |
| Grammatophyllum sp. | black rot | Indonesia (Hall, 1993; Blair et al., 2008; Martin et al., 2014). |
| Grammatophyllum speciosum | black rot | Indonesia (Erwin and Ribeiro, 1996) |
| Laelia sp. | black rot | Argentina (Buenos Aires; Rossetti, 1943) |
| Laeliocattleya sp. | leaf, heart, and stem rot and black rot | Hawaii, USA (Uchida and Aragaki, 1991) |
| Oncidium flexuosum | Leaf and pseudo-stem rot | Taiwan (Deng et al., 2015) |
| Paphiopedilum sp. | stem rot and black rot | Hawaii, USA (Uchida and Aragaki, 1991) |
| Paphiopedilum sp. | top rot, stem/shoot rot | Australia (Forsberg, 1985), Taiwan (Deng et al., 2015) |
| Phalaenopsis sp. | leaf blight/black rot/death of the plant | Taiwan (Wey, 1988; Chen and Hsieh, 1978; Ann, 1995) |
| Spiranthes sinensis | Leaf and pseudobulb rot | Taiwan (Deng et al., 2015) |
| Vanda sp. | top rot, stem rot seedling blight, leaf and flower pots, leaf, heart, and stem rot and black rot, Phytophthora rot | Japan (Rahman et al., 2014); Hawaii, USA (Hine, 1962); Hawaii, USA (Uchida and Aragaki, 1991); Thailand (Takahito et al., 1979); Australia (Forsberg, 1985; Duff and Daly, 2002; Daly et al., 2013); Japan (Rahman et al., 2014) |
| Vanilla fragrans | vines blight and fruit rot | Puerto Rico (Cibes and Childers, 1949) |
| Vanilla planifolia | root rot, vine rot, leaf and bean blacking, pod rot | Indonesia (Purwantara, et al., 2004; Erwin and Ribeiro, 1996); Philippines (Drenth and Guest, 2004); Madagascar (Erwin and Ribeiro, 1996); Reunion (Erwin and Ribeiro, 1996); French Polynesia (Tsao and Mu, 1987; Hall, 1993); Puerto Rico (Erwin and Ribeiro, 1996); China (Zeng et al., 2009) |