New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Smut fungi of New Zealand: An introduction, and list of recorded species

E. H. C. MCKENZIE

Herbarium PDD
Landcare Research
Private Bag 92170
Auckland, New Zealand

K. VáNKY

Herbarium Ustilaginales Vánky (HUV)
Gabriel Biel Str. 5
D-72076
Tübingen, Germany

Abstract  An overview of the smut fungi (Basidiomycota) is presented as an introduction towards a new smut mycoflora for New Zealand. Many of the New Zealand smuts have undergone taxonomic re-evaluation in the last two or three years. All species recorded from New Zealand are listed, together with details on their host plants, a reference to the first New Zealand record of each unique smut/host combination, and a separate alphabetical list of host plants and the smut fungi that parasitise them. A total of 94 smut species are recorded from New Zealand, distributed within 24 genera. Most smuts (60%) are introduced. There are few examples of introduced species attacking native host plants, or of indigenous smuts parasitising exotic hosts. Six smut species are recorded in New Zealand for the first time, and 12 new host records are listed for smut fungi previously recorded in New Zealand. The endemic smut fungus Sorosporium neillii is better accommodated in the genus Tolyposporium and the appropriate recombination is made.

Keywords   Ustilaginales; smuts; checklist; host list; new records

B00053
Received 11 December 2000; accepted 11 April 2001

New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2001, Vol. 39: 501-515

0028-825X/01/3903-0501 $7.00 (c) The Royal Society of New Zealand 2001

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