Glomus tenue (Greenall) I.R. Hall 1977

Details

Name scientific

Glomus tenue (Greenall) I.R. Hall, Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 68 350 (1977)

Preferred name

Planticonsortium tenue (Greenall) C. Walker & D. Redecker 2018

Nomenclature

Authors

(Greenall) I.R. Hall

Original authors

Greenall

Combination authors

I.R. Hall

Publication place

Hall, I.R. 1977: Species and mycorrhizal infections of New Zealand Endogonaceae. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 68(3): 341-356.

Year published

1977

Publication page

350

Orthography

as 'tenuis'

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Rhizophagus tenuis Greenall 1963

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Glomus tenue

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Glomeromycota

Class

Glomeromycetes

Order

Glomerales

Family

Glomeraceae

Genus

Glomus

Species

tenue

Associations

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Association source

has host

Coprosma robusta Raoul

Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)

has host

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

McKenzie, E.H.C.; Buchanan, P.K.; Johnston, P.R. (2006)

Descriptions

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.

Glomus tenue (Greenall) I.R. Hall 1977

Description

Type: Mycorrhizal Fungi; Description: Spores formed singly in soil, globose, 0-septate, 10–12 μm in diameter; spore wall hyaline at first, becoming dark brown; subtending hyphae swollen into a globose structure 1.5 μm in diameter, which is associated with hyphae 0.5 μm wide attached to a ‘fine endophyte’ infection.

Distribution

Distribution: Otago Lakes, Southland.; 1st Record: Greenall (1963: as Rhizophagus tenuis).

Notes

Pathogenicity

Significance: Hall (1977) showed this to be an endomycorrhizal fungus in New Zealand.; Host(s): Coprosma robusta, Griselinia littoralis, Kunzea ericoides, Leptospermum scoparium, Metrosideros umbellata, Pteridium esculentum, Solanum aviculare, S. laciniatum, Weinmannia racemosa.

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