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Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929

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Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 16 330 (1929)
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Present
New Zealand
Political Region

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(Riess) Linder
Riess
Linder
1929
330
ICN
species
Helicodendron tubulosum

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Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929

MID CANTERBURY: Christchurch Botanical Garden, dead leaf of Nothofagus fusca, 9 Sep 2001, PDD 74785, ICMP 14386; Christchurch Botanical Garden, dead leaf of Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides, 17 Apr 2002, PDD 75012, ICMP 14615.
This description applies to the anamorphic Helicodendron state. Conidiophores micronematous, pale brown; conidia hyaline to pale yellow, barrel shaped 20–50 µm long × 20–30 µm in diam., filaments 4 µm, tightly coiled, 5–10 coils per conidium; coiling c-. In culture the colony is brown, conidia coils looser, tending to pyramidal and up to 14 coils per conidium.
New record from New Zealand. This is a common helicoid aero-aquatic fungus with a global distribution.

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Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder (1929)
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder (1929)
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder (1929)
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder (1929)
Helicomyces tubulosus Riess
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
Lambertella tubulosa Abdullah & J. Webster 1981
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929

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Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
New Zealand
Fiordland
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
New Zealand
Mid Canterbury
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
New Zealand
Nelson
Helicodendron tubulosum (Riess) Linder 1929
New Zealand
Northland

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taxonomic status
Although not congeneric with the type species of Helicodendron, this fungus matches phylogentically several other fungi with an 'aquatic hyphomycete' lifestyl and morphology, and Helicodendron is a far better name for it than the phylogentically and ecologically distant Lambertella [PRJ, Jan 2020]

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9665e8c3-cd4b-11d5-bebb-00508bca8de8
scientific name
Names_Fungi
30 October 2001
9 January 2020
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