Chondrostereum Pouzar 1959

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Name scientific

Chondrostereum Pouzar, Česká Mykol. 13 (1959)

Preferred name

Chondrostereum Pouzar 1959

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Pouzar

Original authors

Pouzar

Publication place

Pouzar, Z. 1959: Nové rody vyšších hub III. Česká Mykologie 13(1): 10-19.

Year published

1959

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Chondrostereum Pouzar 1959

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Chondrostereum

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Cyphellaceae

Genus

Chondrostereum

Subordinates

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Malus ×domestica Borkh.

PDD (1 records from New Zealand.)

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Chondrostereum Pouzar 1959

Notes

Fruiting bodies crust-like and sometimes with narrow brackets, closely resembling Stereum. C. purpureum is common on a wide range of introduced hosts.

The endemic C. vesiculosum is found in native forest.

Notes

Corticioid fungi causing a white rot, with crust-like basidiocarps, often with a shelf-like margin.

Two species in New Zealand. The introduced C. purpureum causes silver blight of stone and pip fruits, while C. vesiculosum occurs on a wide range of native hosts, occassionally on introduced trees.