Exobasidium parvifolii is a species of fungus.
Description
Exobasidium parvifolii is a basidiomycete fungi in order Exobasidiales. It forms a systemic, perennial polycarpic infection of at least two species of Vaccinium; Vaccinium parvifolium and Vaccinium 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".
Range Exobasidium parvifolii is found along the northeastern Pacific coast from southeastern Alaska to northern California.
Habitat Exobasidium parvifolii grows in wet, hypermaritime forested ecosystems where their Vaccinium hosts flourish.
Etymology
Exobasidium parvifolii translates to "exorbitant inflection" in Latin.
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