Exobasidium parvifolii is a species of fungus.[1]
| Exobasidium parvifolii | |
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| Exobasidium parvifolii infection of Vaccinium ovalifolium near GuuhlG_a Siiwaay (Spirit Lake) in Haida Gwaii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Exobasidiomycetes |
| Order: | Exobasidiales |
| Family: | Exobasidiaceae |
| Genus: | Exobasidium |
| Species: | E. parvifolii
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| Binomial name | |
| Exobasidium parvifolii Hotson
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Description
editExobasidium parvifolii is a basidiomycete fungi in order Exobasidiales. It forms a systemic, perennial polycarpic infection of at least two species of Vaccinium; V. parvifolium and V. ovalifolium. E. parvifolii stimulates hosts to from cladomania, diseased accessory shoots, annually. Firm, vegetative galls form in the stams. In spring the stams produce up to 100 cylindrical excrescences. The fleshy protrusions eventually clad themselves with a hymenium. By early summer these turn to "shoe-string galls".[2][3]
Range
editExobasidium parvifolii is found on northeastern Pacific coasts from Tlingit territory towards its northern extent to Salinan territory towards its southern extent.
Habitat
editExobasidium parvifolii grows in wet, hypermaritime forested ecosystems where their Vaccinium hosts flourish.
Ecology
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Etymology
editExobasidium parvifolii translates to "exorbitant inflection" in Latin.
Taxonomy
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References
edit- ^ "Exobasidium parvifolii". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ Nannfeldt, John Axel (1981). "Exobasidium, a Taxonomic Reassessment Applied to the European Species". Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses. 23 (2). Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISSN 0082-0644.
- ^ "Exobasidium parvifolii". iNaturalist. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
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