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Pestalotia antenniformis B.J. Murray 1926 [1927]

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Pestalotia antenniformis B.J. Murray, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 57 222 (1926 [1927])

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B.J. Murray
B.J. Murray
1926
1927
222
as 'Pestalozzia antennaeformis'
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Pestalotia antenniformis B.J. Murray 1926 [1927]
NZ
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Pestalotia antenniformis
New Zealand. On living stems and dead leaves of Rubus cissoides A. Cunn., Nelson, 19/7/25 and Wakapuaka, 20/9/25, and on living leaves B. australis Forst., Wakapuaka, 20/9/25. B. J. Murray (Myc. Herb. Nos. 355a, 355b).

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antenniformis

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Pestalotia antenniformis B.J. Murray 1926 [1927]

The minute acervuli of this fungus were found uniformly and densely distributed over large cankered areas on living stems of an isolated bush of Rubus cissoides A. Cunn. growing in the Botanic Reserve, Nelson, and later on a bush of the same species at Wakapuaka,. The cankers stretch from a few inches to several feet along, and wholly or partially surround the stem. The bark is not ruptured except where the acervuli break through the surface, the canker merely appearing as a light brown dead area slightly sunken below and in marked contrast with the green uninfected regions. (Figs. 18, 19.). A search was made for the same fungus on the leaves and, although none was found on the living leaves, dead leaves on the Nelson bush showed on microscopical examination the presence of a species of Pestalozzia identical in character with that on the twigs. Finally the same fungus was discovered on living leaves. but of a different species of Rubus (R. australis) at Wakapuaka. In the latter case a few acervuli occurred on dead spots on the living leaves in conjunction with other fungi it has not so far been seen on the stems of this species.

The acervuli are numerous, gregarious, scattered over large light brown areas on the living stems, minute, circular, flat then erumpent, 132-165 mmm in diameter. (Fig. 9.)

The spores are fusoid, straight or curved, 5-celled, constricted at the septa, 21-31.6 x 6.6-9 mmm.; the cells vary in intensity of colour, tle three middle ones being olivaceous, darker in the upper two; the basal cell is usually the smallest, light olivaceous to hyaline, with a short pedicel 3-6.6 x 1 mmm. Some young, uncoloured conidia still attached to the aeervuli were found with pedicels considerably larger, up to 11.5 x 2.5 mmm., but this was only in very isolated instances. The uppermost cell is smaller than the middle ones, hyaline, conical, hearing a little below the rounded apex and continuous with the cell, usually three, simple, equal, hyaline cilia, the ends of which are most frequently dilated into a small round knob, all reflexed more or less at right angles to the long axis of the spore, 13-50 mmm. long, by 1-1.5 wide. Occasionally there may be two or four cilia, and very rarely they may fork. (Fig. 10.)

The spores germinate readily in water. The cell above the basal cell or less commonly one of the other cells, swells considerably, appearing lighter in colour than before, and puts forth a germ-tube, or two, which cuts off a wall and rapidly proceeds to form a long, sparsely septate, hyaline hypha, which eventually branches and forms the new mycelium (Fig. 11).

This species of Pestalozzia differs in many respects from the other species recorded on Rubus, most nearly resembling P. longiseta Speg. (Sacc., Syll. Fung., vol. 3, 1884, p. 787) from which it is distinguished by larger spores, shorter pedicels, and the characteristic regularly arranged clubbed cilia which are also, on the whole, comparatively shorter. The present species is therefore, considered distinct and is named Pestalozzia antennaeformis n. sp.

Habitat,-On living stems and dead leaves of Rubus cissoides A. Cunn., Nelson, 19/7/25 and Wakapuaka, 20/9/25, and on living leaves R. australis Forst., Wakapuaka, 20/9/25. B. J. Murray (Myc. Herb. Nos. 355a, 355b).

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Pestalotia antenniformis B.J. Murray 1926 [1927]
Pestalotia antenniformis B.J. Murray (1926) [1927]
Pestalotia antenniformis B.J. Murray 1926 [1927]
Pestalotia antenniformis B.J. Murray (1926) [1927]

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New Zealand. On living stems and dead leaves of Rubus cissoides A. Cunn., Nelson, 19/7/25 and Wakapuaka, 20/9/25, and on living leaves B. australis Forst., Wakapuaka, 20/9/25. B. J. Murray (Myc. Herb. Nos. 355a, 355b).

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