Cultural and Other Studies of Fungi That Decay Ocotillo in Arizona
Nakasone KN and Gilbertson RL. 1978. Cultural and Other Studies of Fungi That Decay Ocotillo in Arizona. Mycologia. 70(2):266-299
Thirty-two species of wood-rotting fungi were found on windthrown ocotillo plants in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona. Twenty-seven of these were isolated and their cultural morphology determined. All are homobasidiomycetes except Exlaria hypoxylon. all caused white rots exceptPanus fulvidus. Cristinia sonorae and Hyphoderma fouquieriae are described as new species. Standard agar block decay tests with ocotillo wood showed wide variation in decay capabilities of the 27 fungi.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Nakasone, Karen; Gilbertson, R
- Units
- ORPI , SODN
- Keywords
- Ecology, Fungi, Inventory and Monitoring (I&M), Management, Ocotillo, Plant Studies