Acaulospora laevis Gerd. & Trappe 1974

Details

Name scientific

Acaulospora laevis Gerd. & Trappe 1974

Preferred name

Acaulospora laevis Gerd. & Trappe 1974

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Uncertain

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Authors

Gerd. & Trappe

Original authors

Gerd. & Trappe

Publication place

Gerdemann, J.W.; Trappe, J.M. 1974: The Endogonaceae in the Pacific Northwest. Mycologia Memoirs. 5.

Year published

1974

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Acaulospora laevis Gerd. & Trappe 1974

Type locality

USA

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Acaulospora laevis

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Glomeromycota

Class

Glomeromycetes

Order

Diversisporales

Family

Acaulosporaceae

Genus

Acaulospora

Species

laevis

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Agathis australis (D.Don) Lindl.

Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)

has host

Kunzea ericoides (A.Rich.) Joy Thomps. 1983

McKenzie, E.H.C.; Buchanan, P.K.; Johnston, P.R. (2006)

has mycorrhizal host

Malus domestica

Ridgway, H.J.; Kandula, J.; Stewart, A. (2008)

has mycorrhizal host

Podocarpus cunninghamii Colenso 1884

Williams, A.; Norton, D.A.; Ridgway, H.J. (2012)

has mycorrhizal host

Podocarpus cunninghamii Colenso 1884

Williams, A.; Ridgway, H.J.; Norton, D. (2012)

Descriptions

Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) 2005: Fungi on trees and shrubs in New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. 4. Fungal Diversity Press.

Acaulospora laevis Gerd. & Trappe 1974

Description

Type: Mycorrhizal Fungi; Description: Spores formed singly in soil, globose to subglobose, 0-septate, 120–300 μm in diameter, smooth; spore wall yellow becoming dark yellowish brown to reddish brown, composed of three layers; spores borne laterally on 30–40 μm wide hyphae terminating in a globose, thin-walled (1–2 μm wide) vesicle.

Distribution

Distribution: Otago Lakes, Dunedin, Southland.; 1st Record: Hall (1977).

Notes

Pathogenicity

Significance: Hall (1977) showed this to be an endomycorrhizal fungus in New Zealand.; Host(s): Agathis australis, Aristotelia serrata, Coprosma robusta, Griselinia littoralis, Kunzea ericoides, Leptospermum scoparium, Metrosideros umbellata, Pittosporum tenuifolium, Podocarpus totara, Pteridium esculentum, Solanum aviculare, S. laciniatum, Weinmannia racemosa.