Pisolithus Alb. & Schwein. 1805

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Name scientific

Pisolithus Alb. & Schwein., Consp. Fung. Lusat. 82 (1805)

Preferred name

Pisolithus Alb. & Schwein. 1805

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Uncertain

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Authors

Alb. & Schwein.

Original authors

Alb. & Schwein.

Publication place

Albertini, J.B. von; Schweinitz, L.D. von 1805: Conspectus Fungorum in Lusatiae Superioris Agro Niskiensi Crescentium e Methodo Persooniana. Kummerian.

Year published

1805

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pisolithus Alb. & Schwein. 1805

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Pisolithus

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Boletales

Family

Pisolithaceae

Genus

Pisolithus

Subordinates

Synonyms

Polysaccum F. Desp. & DC. 1807

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

has host

Kunzea ericoides (A.Rich.) Joy Thomps. 1983

De Roman, M.; Claveria, V.; De Miguel, A.M. (2005)

has host

Eucalyptus

PDD (1 records from Australia.)

has host

Eucalyptus camaldulensis

PDD (1 records from Australia.)

has host

Eucalyptus diversicolor F.Muell.

PDD (1 records from Australia.)

has host

Pinus caribaea Morelet

PDD (1 records from New Caledonia.)

isolated from

Kunzea ericoides var. microflora (G.Simpson) W.Harris

ICMP (2 records from New Zealand.)

has host

Kunzea

PDD (22 records from New Zealand.)

has host

Kunzea ericoides (A.Rich.) Joy Thomps. 1983

PDD (3 records from New Zealand.)

has host

Leptospermum scoparium J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

PDD (1 records from New Zealand.)

Descriptions

Anon.: NZFUNGI (unassigned reference).

Pisolithus Alb. & Schwein. 1805

Notes

The dyeballs. Fruiting bodies are medium-sized, yellow to brown to black, with a thick leathery wall. The spores develop in numerous discrete clumps (peridioles) and are released as the upper surface of the spore case breaks down.

The name dyeball arises from their use for dyeing wool in Europe.

In New Zealand there are 3 species, all confined to the thermal areas of the central North Island where they are mycorrhizal with tea-tree species, especially the prostrate kanuka common at these sites.

Notes

Fruiting bodies irregularly globose in shape, yellow-brown. Powdery, brownish spore mass revealed when wall breaks down irregularly. In New Zealand found only on soil in thermal areas of the crentral North Island, mycorrhizal on roots of the local prostrate Kunzea.

Four species in New Zealand, all found also in Australia. Only those species listed below treated in the Virtual Mycota.