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Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb 1962

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Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1 263 (1962)
Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb 1962

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Endemic
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McNabb
McNabb
1962
263
as 'dracophyllii'
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Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb 1962
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species
Exobasidium dracophylli
New Zealand, Otago: Fiordland, Secretary Island, February 1960, R.F.R.Mc., Type Collection PDD 19664

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Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb 1962

Type: Foliicolous Fungi; Description: Hymenium on the underside of deformed leaves; white, forming a continuous layer. Basidiospores cylindrical, 20–27 × 5–8 μm, smooth, hyaline; germinating spores 0–1-septate. Conidia none.
Distribution: Fiordland.; 1st Record: McNabb (1962b).
Significance: None. Causes hypertrophy, accompanied by elongation and a red-violet colouration in leaves and sheathing leaf bases.; Host(s): Dracophyllum prostratum, D. uniflorum.

Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb 1962

Dracophyllum prostratum Kirk.

Otago: Fiordland, Secretary Island, February 1960, R.F.R.Mc, 19668. Dracophyllum uniflorum Hook, f.

Otago: Fiordland, Secretary Island, February 1960, R.F.R.Mc, Type Collection P.D.D. Herb. No. 19664.

Systemic in shoots, causing hypertrophy in infected leaves and stems; hymenium hypophyllous, white, basidia at first protruding between epidermal cells in fascicles of 3-6, forming a continuous layer over undersurface of leaf at maturity, cylindrical to subclavate, projecting 25 µ.-45 µ. beyond cuticle, 5.0-6.5 µ. wide; sterigmata 2-(3), conical, 6.0-8.5 µ. long; basidiospores hyaline, smooth, cylindrical or slightly clavate, base not hooked, 20.0-27.0 x 5.0-8.0 µ,, average 23.5 x 6.5 µ., germinating spores 0-(l)-septate; conidia absent.
New Zealand.
Systemicum in surculis, efficiens hypertrophiam in frondibus et stirpibus infectis, hymenio albo, plerumque hypophyllio; basidia cylindrica vel subclavata, 3-6-nario disposita, 25?45 µ ultra cuticulam eminentia, 5.0-6.5 µ lata; sterigmata 2?(3), conica, 6.0?8.5 µ longa; basidiosporae hyalinae, leves, cylindricae vel tenuiter clavatae, basi non hamata, 20.0-27.0 (23.5) x 5.0-8.0 (6.5) µ, sporae germinantes 0?(1)-septatae; conidia absentia.

The hosts are endemic species confined to the mountains of the South Island and southern North Island (Allan 1961, p. 524, 526). In both species the infection is similar, causing hypertrophy in leaves, sheathing leaf bases and stems, accompanied by elongation of infected parts and a red-violet colouration.

Exobasidium dracophyllii is characterised by long, broad basidiospores and bisterigmate basidia.

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Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb 1962
Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb (1962)
Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb 1962
Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb (1962)
Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb 1962
Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb (1962)
Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb 1962
Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb (1962)
Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb 1962
Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb (1962)

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Exobasidium dracophylli McNabb 1962
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typification
New Zealand, Otago: Fiordland, Secretary Island, February 1960, R.F.R.Mc., Type Collection PDD 19664

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17 October 1997
15 December 2003
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