Globisporangium spinosum (Sawada) Uzuhashi, Tojo & Kakish. 2010

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Name scientific

Globisporangium spinosum (Sawada) Uzuhashi, Tojo & Kakish., Mycoscience 51 363 (2010)

Preferred name

Globisporangium spinosum (Sawada) Uzuhashi, Tojo & Kakish. 2010

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Exotic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Sawada) Uzuhashi, Tojo & Kakish.

Original authors

Sawada

Combination authors

Uzuhashi, Tojo & Kakish.

Publication place

Uzuhashi, S.; Tojo, M.; Kakishima, M. 2010: Phylogeny of the genus Pythium and description of new genera. Mycoscience 51: 337-365.

Year published

2010

Publication page

363

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pythium spinosum Sawada 1926

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Globisporangium spinosum

Classification

Kingdom

Chromista

Phylum

Oomycota

Class

Oomycetes

Order

Peronosporales

Family

Pythiaceae

Genus

Globisporangium

Species

spinosum

Synonyms

Pythium spinosum Sawada 1926

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Aphelandra squarrosa Nees

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

has host

Lactuca sativa L.

Karling, J.S. (1968)

has host

Aphelandra squarrosa Nees

Pennycook, S.R. (1989)

has host

Aphelandra squarrosa Nees

Robertson, G.I. (1973)

has host

Aphelandra squarrosa Nees

Robertson, G.I. (1980)

isolated from

Cyperus

ICMP (1 records from New Zealand.)

isolated from

Cyperus haspan L.

ICMP (1 records from New Zealand.)

isolated from

Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link

ICMP (1 records from New Zealand.)

has host

Sarothamnus scoparius (L.) Wimm. ex W.D.J.Koch 1853

PDD (1 records from New Zealand.)

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.

Pythium spinosum Sawada 1926

Description

Type: Radicicolous Fungi; Description: Colonies on corn meal agar cottony, aerial mycelium abundant, main hyphae 2–5 μm wide. Sporangia globose to subglobose, 12–27 μm in diameter, or ellipsoidal to limoniform, 12–32 × 7–22 μm, occasionally spiny. Oogonia terminal or intercalary, globose to subglobose, 12–25 μm in diameter, wall echinulate with digitate, straight or curved 4–7 μm long spines. Antheridia 1–2 per oogonium, monoclinous, occasionally diclinous. Oospores plerotic, 11–22 μm in diameter.

Distribution

Distribution: Northland, Waikato, Hawkes Bay.; 1st Record: Robertson (1973a).

Notes

Pathogenicity

Significance: Minor. Frequently isolated from diseased roots (Robertson 1973a).; Host(s): Aphelandra squarrosa, Boronia megastigma, Ceanothus sp., Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, Cytisus scoparius, Erica sp., Eucalyptus cinerea, Fuchsia ×hybrida, Grevillea sp., Hebe odora, Leucadendron sp., Pseudopanax sp., Thujopsis dolabrata.