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Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982

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Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg
Matsush.
Gerlach & Nirenberg
1982
309
ICNP
species
Fusarium proliferatum

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proliferatum

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Type: Radicicolous Fungi; Description: Colonies on agar with dense, white vinaceous, floccose to felty aerial mycelium. Chlamydospores none. Microconidia fusiform to clavate, 0-septate, 5–12 × 1.5–2.5 μm, catenate. Macroconidia fusoid, 3–7-septate, 25–60 × 3–4 μm, with a sharply curved apical cell and a well-developed foot cell.
Distribution: Northland, Bay of Plenty, Hawkes Bay.; 1st Record: Laundon (1978a: as Gibberella fujikuroi).
Notes: There is considerable confusion about the synonymy of the New Zealand material described as Fusarium moniliforme. In the broad sense of Wollenweber & Reinking, this name covers not only Fusarium verticilloides but also F. proliferatum var. proliferatum and F. proliferatum var. minus. All these are without known teleomorphs and none are connected with Gibberella fujikuroi sensu stricto. In the absence of definitive work on the New Zealand material, the compromise solution is to record it as Fusarium proliferatum.
Significance: Occasionally recorded from forest nurseries (Dick & Dobbie 2002).; Host(s): Dracaena fragrans, Pinus radiata.

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Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg (1982)
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg (1982)
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg (1976)
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg

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Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982
Cook Islands
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982
Fiji
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982
New Zealand
Auckland
Fusarium proliferatum (Matsush.) Nirenberg ex Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982
New Zealand
Nelson

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taxonomic status
Gibberella fujikuroi Mating Population D

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11 March 2010
20 January 2014
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