New records of fungous diseases in Hew Zealand 1955-56.

Abstract

Summary The following fungi are recorded from New Zealand for the first tim—Elsinoe mattirolianum (Sacc. & D. Sacc.) Arnaud & Bitancourt, Nectria haematococca Berk. & Br. var. cucurbitae (Snyder & Hansen) n. comb., Sclerotinia squamosa (Viennot-Bourgin) Dennis, Stagonospora hortensis Sacc. & Malb., Colletotrichum dematium (Berk.) Vogl. var. circinans (Berk.) Arx, Alternaria cucumerina (Ell. & Everh.) Eliot, Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht. emend. Snyder & Hansen var. cepa (Hanz.) Snyder & Hansen. Additional host records include Albugo tragopogonis Pers. ex. S. F. Gray on Senecio vulgaris L.; Taphrina cerasi (Fckl.) Sadb. on Prunus yedoensis Matsum; Botryosphaeria dothidea (Moug. ex Fr.) Ces. & de Not. on Rosa rubiginosa L.; Fabraea maculata Atk. on Crataegus monogyna Jacq.; Corticium rolfsii (Sacc.), Curzi on carrot (Daucus carota L.), artichoke (Helianthus tuberosa L.), and kumara (Ipomoea batatas Poir.); Corticium salmonicolor Berk. & Br. on pear (Pyrus communis L.) ; Septoria cucurbitacearum Sacc. on cucum...