Exobasidium camelliae Shirai 1896

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Name scientific

Exobasidium camelliae Shirai, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 10 51 (1896)

Preferred name

Exobasidium camelliae Shirai 1896

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Exotic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Authors

Shirai

Original authors

Shirai

Publication place

Shirai, M. 1896: Descriptions of some new Japanese species of Exobasidium. Botanical Magazine, Tokyo 10: 51-54.

Year published

1896

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Exobasidium camelliae Shirai 1896

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Exobasidium camelliae

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Exobasidiomycetes

Order

Exobasidiales

Family

Exobasidiaceae

Genus

Exobasidium

Species

camelliae

Subordinates

Exobasidium camelliae var. gracile

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Camellia japonica L.

Brien, R.M.; Dingley, J.M. (1955)

has host

Camellia japonica L.

Dingley, J.M. (1969)

has host

Camellia japonica L.

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

has host

Camellia japonica L.

McNabb, R.F.R. (1962)

has host

Camellia japonica L.

Pennycook, S.R. (1989)

has host

Camellia japonica L.

Ridley, G.S.; Dick, M.A. (2001)

isolated from

Acca sellowiana

ICMP (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Camellia

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

has host

Camellia japonica L.

PDD (11 records from [Not available].)

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.

Exobasidium camelliae Shirai 1896

Description

Type: Foliicolous Fungi; Description: Hymenium on deformed flower buds and occasionally on flowering shoots; white, convoluted, powdery at maturity, forming a continuous layer over surface of deformed organ. Basidiospores cylindrical to subclavate, 16–22 × 5–9 μm, smooth, hyaline; germinating spores 3–4-septate. Conidia abundant, narrow fusiform, 9–11 × 2–3 μm, hyaline.

Distribution

Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty.; 1st Record: Brien & Dingley (1955).

Notes

Pathogenicity

Significance: Usually attacks the innermost petals of flower buds, causing hyper-trophy and deformation and often reducing the bud to a hollow, irregular mass. It is not common.; Host(s): Camellia japonica.