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Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931

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Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931
Globisporangium echinulatum (V.D. Matthews) Uzuhashi, Tojo & Kakish. 2010

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V.D. Matthews
V.D. Matthews
Matthews, V.D. (ed) 1931: Studies on the Genus Pythium.
1931
101
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Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931
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Pythium echinulatum

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Chromista
Oomycota
Oomycetes
Peronosporales
Pythiaceae
Pythium
echinulatum

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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.

Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931

Type: Radicicolous Fungi; Description: Colonies on corn meal agar submerged with a rosette pattern, no aerial mycelium, main hyphae up to 8 μm wide. Sporangia terminal or intercalary, globose to subglobose, mostly in chains of 2–4, 12–30 μm in diameter. Oogonia terminal or intercalary, globose to subglobose, 17–30 μm in diameter, wall echinulate with acute, conical projections, 1–5 μm long. Antheridia one per oogonium, usually hypogenous. Oospores aplerotic, 15–27 μm in diameter.
Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Wellington, Hawkes Bay, Marlborough.; 1st Record: Robertson (1976).
Significance: Infrequently isolated from damped-off seedlings and reported to be slightly pathogenic to roots of vegetable seedlings (Robertson 1976).; Host(s): Malus ×domestica.

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Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931
Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews (1931)
Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)
Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931
Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews (1931)
Matthews, V.D. (1931)
Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931
Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews (1931)
Pennycook, S.R. (1989)
Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931
Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews (1931)
Pennycook, S.R.; Galloway, D.J. (2004)
Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931
Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931
Plaats-Niterink, AJ. van der (1981)
Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931
Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews (1931)
Robertson, G.I. (1976)
Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931
Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews (1931)
Robertson, G.I. (1980)

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Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931
New Zealand
Auckland
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Pythium echinulatum V.D. Matthews 1931
New Zealand
Hawkes Bay
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