Heterobasidion annosum

Taxobox
name = "Heterobasidion annosum"
regnum = Fungi
phylum = Basidiomycota
classis = Basidiomycetes
subclassis = Incertae sedis
ordo = Russulales
familia = Bondarzewiaceae
genus = "Heterobasidion"
species = "H. annosum"
binomial = "Heterobasidion annosum"
binomial_authority = (Fr.) Bref., (1888)
synonyms = "Boletus annosus"
"Boletus cryptarum"
"Fomes annosus"
"Fomes annosus f. cryptarum"
"Fomes cryptarum"
"Fomitopsis annosa"
"Friesia annosa"
"Heterobasidion annosum f. cryptarum"
"Heterobasidion cryptarum"
"Physisporus makraulos"
"Placodes annosus"
"Polyporus annosus"
"Polyporus cryptarum"
"Polyporus fuscus"
"Polyporus irregularis"
"Polyporus makraulos"
"Polyporus marginatoides"
"Polyporus scoticus"
"Polyporus subpileatus"
"Polystictoides fuscus"
"Polystictus cryptarum"
"Poria cryptarum"
"Poria macraula"
"Pycnoporus annosus"
"Scindalma annosum"
"Scindalma cryptarum"
"Spongioides cryptarum"
"Trametes annosa"
"Trametes radiciperda"
"Ungulina annosa"
"Ungulina annosa f. cryptarum"
"Ungulina annosa f. makraulos"

Heterobasidion annosum is a plant pathogen and a Basidiomycete fungus that causes root and butt rot to conifers. It establishes in wounds or stump surfaces created by tree felling. The mycelium grows through root systems and infects helthy trees at points of root contacts or root grafts. Annosum root rot of conifers causes major economic losses to forestry, more than 580 million euro annually in western Europe alone.

[ Woodward, S., Stenlid, J., Karjalainen, R., & Hu¨ ttermann, A.(1998). Heterobasidion annosum biology, ecology, impact andcontrol . Wallingford: CAB International.]

External links

[http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp Index Fungorum]
[http://nt.ars-grin.gov/fungaldatabases USDA ARS Fungal Database]

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