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Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959

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Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar, Česká Mykol. 13 17 (1959)
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959

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Exotic
Present
New Zealand
Political Region
mostly on exotic hosts

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(Pers.) Pouzar
Pers.
Pouzar
1959
17
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ICN
species
Chondrostereum purpureum

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BETULACEAE. Betula alba: Nelson, Hanmer State Forest, 400 m. CONIFERAE. Cupressus macrocarpa: Auckland, Orewa, 30 m. FAGACEAE. Fagus sylvatica: Canterbury, Christchurch Botanic Gardens. Nothofagus cliffortioides: Wellington, Oturere River, Mt. Tongariro, 1,200 m; Mangatorutoru Valley, Mt. Ruapehu, 1,000 m. Nelson, Lake Rotoiti, 700 m. PAPILIONACEAE. Cytisus scoparius: Wellington, Kelburn, 120 m; Turangi, 400 m. Marlborough, Kaikoura, 10 m. Canterbury, Riccarton, 10 m. South Australia, Adelaide. Lupinus arboreus: Auckland, Piha, 30 m. Wellington, Feilding, 25 m. Robinia pseudoacacia: Auckland, Mt. Eden, 50 m. Ulex europaeus: Swanson, 270 m. PITTOSPORACEAE. Pittosporum crassifolium: Auckland, Mt. Albert, 35 m. ROSACEAE. Cotoneaster vulgaris: Auckland, Owairaka, 85 m. Crataegus oxyacantha: Auckland, Buried Village, Wairoa, 450 m. Cydonia oblonga: Hawke's Bay, Twyford, 10 m. Eriobotrya japonica: Auckland, Mt. Albert, 60 m. Prunus armeniaca: South Australia, Clarendon. Prunus cerasus: South Australia, Beaumont, Adelaide. Prunus domestica: Auckland, Te Aroha, 35 m. Canterbury, Christchurch. Prunus lusitanica: Canterbury, Christchurch, 15 m. Prunus persica: Wellington, Weraroa, 25 m. Pyrus communis: Auckland, Henderson, 20 m. Nelson, Motueka, 10 m. Pyrus malus: Auckland, Te Papa; Mt. Albert; Owairaka; Mt. Eden. Hawke's Bay, Havelock North; Twyford. Wellington, Turakina Valley, 60 m; Greytown, 30 m; Tiritea, 10 m. Nelson, Appleby, 35 m. Rubus idaeus: Wellington, Greytown; Feilding. Canterbury, Christchurch. SALICACEAE. Populus nigra var. italica: Auckland, Wellsford, 120 m; Thames, coast. Populus tremula: Wellington, Palmerston North. Salix fragilis: Auckland, Mt. Albert. SAXIFRAGACEAE. Escallonia vulgaris: Auckland, Mt. Albert, 35 m. Otago, Edendale.
Hymenophore annual, membranous, pileate, sessile. Pilei effused-reflexed or flabelliform, solitary or more usually laterally connate and imbricate, sometimes with a broad resupinate base and reflexed margins, occasionally resupinate, 3-10 mm radius, 3-15 mm wide, when connate forming linear areas to 20 cm long; pileus surface coarsely tomentose, concentrically sulcate and zoned, usually straw colour or tan, sometimes dingy grey, occasionally with denuded zones; margin thinning out, concolorous, entire, inturned; hymenial surface even, sometimes scantily rugulose, ochre, pallid plum or purple, occasionally creviced when old. Context white, 0.3-0.5 mm thick, a dense layer of radiately arranged parallel hyphae with a loosely intertwined zone beneath the hymenium containing vesicles, and a coloured cortex from which arise the abhymenial hairs; skeletal hyphae 3.5-4 µm diameter, walls 0.5-1 µm thick; generative hyphae 2.5-3 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, with clamp connections. Vesicles developing in a zone beneath the hymenial layer, arising from generative hyphae, pyriform, 12-18 µm diameter, carried on stout pedicels. Hymenial layer to 50 µm deep, a dense palisade of basidia, paraphyses, and sometimes paraphysate hyphae. Basidia subclavate, 16-24 x 5-6 µm, bearing 4 spores; sterigmata slender, erect, to 6 µm long. Paraphyses subelavate, 12-18 x 4-5 µm. Cystidioid hyphae absent. Paraphysate hyphae cylindrical, to 5 µm diameter, projecting to 35 µm. Spores elliptical, or with one side slightly flattened, obliquely apiculate, 5.5-8 x 2.5-3.5 µm, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.2 µm thick.
DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan.
HABITAT: Crowded and often imbricate upon living or dead trunks and branches.
Readily recognised by the zone of pyriform vesicles beneath the hymenial layer, coarsely tomentose small pilei, often connate and imbricate, dimitic hyphal system with clamp connections in the generative hyphae, and small elliptical, obliquely apiculate spores. Vesicles are readily seen in growing specimens, but in old material collapse and lose their contents or disappear, then leaving cavities in the context. Occasional vesicles are flexuous-cylindrical, traverse the hymenial layer, and simulate gloeocystidia. A coloured cortex is present beneath abhymenial hairs, as in S. hirsutum, but cystidioid hyphae are wanting. Paraphysate hyphae are present in some collections, absent from others, so are without specific significance. The hyphal system is dimitic. Skeletal hyphae, although of about the same diameter as generative, differ in that walls are thicker, septa scanty, and clamp connections wanting. Commonly some shade of purple, the hymenium often exhibits other colours, such as ochre, pallid plum, or grey. In some plants the context, and especially the hymenial layer, appears zoned, the condition probably representing periods of seasonal growth. S. purpureum induces a silver leaf disease of many cultivated fruits, in New Zealand being common on apples, apricots, cherries, gooseberries, peaches, pears, plums, and raspberries. Although usually found in introduced hosts, it is not confined to these since in the herbarium are collections from endemic New Zealand plants, two on branches of Nothofagus cliffortioides, a third on stems of Pittosporum tenuifolium. In most collections spores are 5.5-6 x 2.5-3 µm but in several specimens may reach a length of 8 µm. Large-spored forms are not associated with any other noteworthy feature. The species was made the type of Chondrostereum by Pouzar (1959, p. 17).
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe.
Although silver blight was recorded from plum trees in New Zealand by Blackmore (1894), the relationship with the fungus Stereum purpureum was not proved until 1902, by Percival, working in England. Cunningham (1922a) (1922c) stated that S. purpurerun occurred throughout New Zealand in both stone and pip fruit orchards; it caused the greatest losses in apricot and peach orchards. In a survey carried out in 1953, Watts (1954) showed that losses due to silver leaf in stone fruit were high. Even today it is still a major problem in stone-fruit orchards, where losses can be high even in trees five to six years old (Anon., 19656). The fungus has a wide host range, but silvering symptoms are not produced in all host plants. As it occurs commonly on introduced hosts, it seems likely that the disease was introduced with nursery stock of a host plant.

Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959

Type: Caulicolous Fungi; Description: Basidiomata fully resupinate to semipileate with pilei which project up to 40 mm from the substrate, forming patches up to 100 mm long. Pileus surface tomentose, greyish white, indistinctly zoned, margin lighter. Pore surface purplish to dark violaceous, when old brown violaceous, smooth to slightly wrinkled, margin slightly fringed. Context 1–2 mm thick, in cross section a dark line separating the context from the pileus surface is clearly visible. Hyphal system monomitic. Cystidia sparse, fusoid or obtuse, some encrusted, 60–70 × 5–8 μm, hyaline. Basidiospores ellipsoidal to cylindrical, 5–8 × 2–4 μm, smooth, hyaline, non-amyloid.
Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Coromandel, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Taupo, Rangitikei, Wanganui, Wellington, Gisborne, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Nelson, Buller, Marlborough Sounds, Marlborough, Kaikoura, Mid Canterbury, Southland, Chatham Islands.; 1st Record: Blackmore (1894: as ‘silver blight’).
Significance: A wound parasite well known as the causal agent of silver leaf disease in fruit trees, particularly species of Prunus. It is regarded as the major cause of tree loss in stone fruit orchards (Atkinson 1971). Of no major importance in plantation forestry, although it was found to be the most common fungus isolated from pruning wounds in Eucalyptus delegatensis, causing extensive rot of sapwood in infected trees (Gadgil & Bawden 1981).; Host(s): Acacia baileyana, Aesculus hippocastanum, Betula pendula, Ceanothus papillosus, Chamaecytisus palmensis, Corylus avellana, Cotoneaster sp., Crataegus monogyna, Cupressus macrocarpa, Cydonia oblonga, Cytisus scoparius, Eriobotrya japonica, Escallonia rubra var. macrantha, Eucalyptus botryoides, E. delegatensis, E. fastigata, E. ficifolia, E. macarthurii, E. nitens, E. pyrocarpa, E. regnans, E. saligna, E. viminalis, Euonymus japonicus, Fagus sylvatica, Fraxinus excelsior, Laburnum sp., Leucadendron sp., Lonicera tatarica, Lupinus arboreus, Malus angustifolia, M. ×domestica, Mespilus germanica, Nerium oleander, Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides, Pittosporum crassifolium, P. tenuifolium, Populus alba, P. ×canadensis, P. deltoides, P. ×generosa, P. ×gileadensis, P. maximowiczii, P. nigra, P. simonii, P. tremula, P. trichocarpa, P. yunnanensis, Protea sp., Prunus armeniaca, P. avium, P. cerasifera, P. ×domestica, P. dulcis, P. lusitanica, P. persica, P. persica var. nucipersica, P. salicina, P. serrulata, Pyrus communis, P. pyrifolia, Rhododendron sp., Ribes nigrum, R. uva-crispa var. sativum, Robinia pseudoacacia, Rosa sp., Rubus idaeus, Salix alba var. vitellina, S. babylonica, S. chilensis, S. fragilis, S. matsudana, Sorbus aucuparia, Syringa vulgaris, Ulex europaeus, Weigela florida.

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Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
Australia
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
Austria
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
Canada
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
Netherlands
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Auckland
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Bay of Plenty
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Buller
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Chatham Islands
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Coromandel
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Dunedin
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Gisborne
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Hawkes Bay
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Kaikoura
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Marlborough
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Mid Canterbury
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Nelson
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Southland
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Taranaki
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Taupo
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Waikato
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Wairarapa
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Wanganui
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Wellington
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
New Zealand
Westland
Chondrostereum purpureum (Pers.) Pouzar 1959
United States
New Zealand
Hawkes Bay
New Zealand
Mid Canterbury
New Zealand
New Zealand

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