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Elateromyces endotrichus (Berk.) G. Cunn. 1924

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Elateromyces endotrichus (Berk.) G. Cunn., Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 55 416 (1924)

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(Berk.) G. Cunn.
Berk.
G. Cunn.
1924
416
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Elateromyces endotrichus

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Elateromyces endotrichus (Berk.) G. Cunn. 1924

Host: Gahnia sp. In inflorescences. North Island, Sinclair. (Type in Herb. Kew.)
Sori in inflorescences, elliptical, black, pulverulent, intermixed with numerous long coloured elaters. Spores globose, 5-7 mmm. dram., epispore minutely and closely verruculose, blackish olive.
Distribution : New Zealand.
Only the single collection now at Kew (as Ustilago) has been made of this species. It is closely related to the following, which may possibly turn out to be the same; I have separated E. niger principally on account of the larger spores, and especially the very numerous black elaters.
E. endotrichus has been recorded from Ceylon, but Petch (1912) - to whose paper I am indebted for the description of the spores, given above - states the Ceylon species is E. (Ustilago) olivaceus.
The method of germination is unknown.

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Elateromyces endotrichus (Berk.) G. Cunn. 1924
Elateromyces endotrichus (Berk.) G. Cunn. (1924)
Elateromyces endotrichus (Berk.) G. Cunn. 1924
Elateromyces endotrichus (Berk.) G. Cunn. (1924)

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