Wald-Engelwurz
Protomyces macrosporus is an ascomycete fungus that forms galls on "Aegopodium podagraria", "Anthriscus sylvestris", "Angelica sylvestris", "Daucus carota" and some other members of the family Umbelliferae or Apiaceae, commonly known as umbellifers. Fourteen genera within the Asteraceae are also galled by "P. macrosporus". The description of the genus was based on "Protomyces macrosporus" as the type genus for the family Protomycetaceae.