New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts
Checklist of fungi on teatree (Kunzea and Leptospermum
species) in New Zealand
E. H. C. McKenzie
P. R. Johnston
P. K. Buchanan
Herbarium PDD
Landcare Research
Private Bag 92170
Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Abstract An annotated
list is provided of 450 taxa of fungi (including oomycetes and
myxomycetes) that have been recorded in New Zealand in close
association with teatree, that is, species of Kunzea
and Leptospermum. Nearly all records refer to fungi
growing with K. ericoides (kanuka) or L.
scoparium (manuka), as ectomycorrhizal mycobionts,
endophytes, pathogens, or as saprobes causing decay of wood and leaves.
The only records of fungi specific to another taxon are those of the
mycorrhizal genus Pisolithus, which grows in
association with K. ericoides var. microflora
in the central North Island thermal areas. The list has been compiled
from data associated with specimens held in the New Zealand Fungal
Herbarium (PDD) and in Herbarium NZFRI-M, and from the literature.
Comments on the distribution of individual fungi within New Zealand, or
on the occurrence of fungi on other plant substrata in New Zealand, are
supported by information in the New Zealand Fungi
website. Communities dominated by teatree are a widespread conservation
resource, and an important habitat for New Zealand fungi, especially
native species of ectomycorrhizal fungi. One hundred species of fungi
have been described with teatree as the substrate for the type
specimen. This figure is made up of 11 Ascomycota, 59 Agaricales, 20
Aphyllophorales, and 10 anamorphic taxa
Keywords biodiversity;
endophytes; mycorrhizas; pathogens; saprobes
B06006, Received 21 February 2006; accepted 6 June 2006;
Online publication date 13 September 2006
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2006, Vol. 44:
293–335
0028–825X/06/4403 © The Royal Society
of
New Zealand 2006
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