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 Uredo brownii
SynonymsUredo southlandicus
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: FIG. 122. Uredo southlandicus G.H. Cunn. Uredospores from Olearia angustifolia Hook.
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Caption: FIG. 6.-Uredo southlandicus G.H. Cunn. on Olearia angustifolia Hook. f. Note the
characteristic epiphyllous, bullate, scattered sori. |
Article: 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. Ngā Harore o Aotearoa 4: xi + 437 p. Hong Kong: Fungal Diversity Press.
Description: Type: Rust and Smut Fungi; Description: Uredinia scattered, rounded, golden brown, 1–2 mm in diameter; on the upper surfaces of leaves. Urediniospores subglobose to elliptical, 28–36 × 24–30 μm, coarsely and sparsely echinulate, hyaline.
Distribution: Distribution: Fiordland, Southland, Stewart Island.; 1st Record: Sydow & Sydow (1907).
Article: Cunningham, G.H. (1924). The Uredinales, or rust-fungi, of New Zealand: supplement to Part 1; and Part 2. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 55: 1-58 Wellington:.
Description: II. Uredosori epiphyllous, scattered evenly over the leaf-surface, orbicular, 1-2 mm. diam.,
bullate, golden-brown, long covered. Spores subglobose or elliptical, 28-35 X 24-28 mmm.;
epispore hyaline, coarsely and sparsely echinulate, 4-5 mmm. thick, cell-contents granular,
orange; germ-pores indistinct.
Notes: The host is endemic, and is confined to the southern part of the South Island and to Stewart
Island. (Cheeseman, 1906, p. 281.)
This species is characterized by the thick, coarsely and sparsely echinulate epispore, and by
the epiphyllous covered sori.
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