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Uredo salicorniae G. Cunn.

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Scientific name
Uredo salicorniae
Author
G. Cunn.
Common names
 
IUCN Specialist Group
Rust and Smut
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Pucciniomycetes
Order
Pucciniales
Family
Incertae sedis
Assessment status
Under Assessment
Proposed by
Peter Buchanan
Assessors
Peter Buchanan
Editors
Tom May
Contributors
Peter Buchanan
Reviewers
Anders Dahlberg, Gregory Mueller

Assessment Notes

Taxonomic notes

Uredo salicorniae will soon be renamed (with a new epithet) in Uromyces by McKenzie & Padamsee (in prep.), following discovery of the third (2015) collection bearing both urediniospores and teliospores.  Uromyces salicorniae (DC.) de Bary was described from Europe and is readily distinguished by urediniospores with fewer germ pores.


Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?

Uredo salicorniae is an endemic rust from New Zealand, with only 3 collections (1929, 1956, 2015) from 3 widely separated mainland locations. It’s obligate host is the widespread Sarcocornia quinqueflora subsp. quinqueflora. The rust has been actively searched for on this host over recent decades, resulting in the single 2015 new record.


Geographic range

New Zealand only. Known from 3 widely dispersed locations only:  the island Rangitoto near Auckland city (North Island) and 2 South Is. locations - a coastal salt meadow Lake Ellesmere, mid-Canterbury (1929), and Otago Peninsula near Dunedin (2015). The latter will be the holotype of the new name as the specimen bears urediniospores and teliospores.

The rust has been actively searched for on its host by E McKenzie during more than 30 years of collecting rust fungi

NB. The 3rd collection from 2015 (PDD 105326) has location “New Zealand Transverse Mercator (New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000):  1421224 4921350; New Zealand Map Grid (New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000):  2331022 5482977” - This is yet to be added to KML file


Population and Trends

Known from only 3 locations, based on 3 collections (1929, 1956, 2015). Very rarely found despite long-term active searching in recent decades.

Population Trend:


Habitat and Ecology

Obligately parasitic on a single host, Sarcocornia quinqueflora subsp. quinqueflora (formerly in the genus Salicornia) which is a succulent subshrub indigenous to New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Australia. The host is found throughout New Zealand in saltmarsh, on coastal rocks and cliffs (McKenzie & Padamsee, in prep.).


Threats

??  Obligate host is not considered to be under threat. Climate disruption? - if lifecycle vulnerable to temperature rise, but seem unlikely given latitude spread of 3 known collections. Negative human impacts at any of its 3 known locations could disrupt local population.


Conservation Actions

The fungus is designated “nationally critical” in the New Zealand Threat Classification System lists (Hitchmough 2002).


Research needed

Continued collecting to attempt to better define its distribution. If additional fresh material is found, investigate if there are any sequence differences in material sourced from widely separated locations - cf. cryptic speciation.


Use and Trade

none


Bibliography

Hitchmough, R. 2002: New Zealand Threat Classification System lists 2002. Threatened Species Occasional Publication 23. Wellington, Department of Conservation. 210 p.


Country occurrence

Regional Population and Trends

Country Trend Redlisted