In this study, the causal agent of Centuarea ragusina wilt disease was recorded for the first time in Egypt. Morphological characterization and DNA sequencing showed that the pathogen was Fusarium solani. A pathogenicity test conducted gave 60 % infection. A pure culture of F. solani was isolated on potato dextrose agar (PDA) at 25 °C from diseased plants and deposited in the culture collection of the Assiut University Mycological
Centre as AUMC 9299 and the ITS sequence was uploaded to GenBank as accession number MG734215.