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Fungi were isolated from young, serial-washed roots of Calluna sampled from a Danish heathland, Hjelm Hede. Of the 626 isolates, those that were dark, sterile and septate were divided into 13 morphological groups based on their appearance in culture on malt agar. Mycorrhizal synthesis in vitro showed that several groups formed typical ericoid mycorrhiza with seedlings of Calluna; these ericoid mycorrhizal fungi were morphologically similar to Hymenoscyphus ericae. The identities of the other dark, septate fungi are uncertain. Oidiodendron spp. were isolated in a very low frequency; these fungi also formed typical ericoid mycorrhiza. The Calluna root system on Hjelm Hede demonstrated a high morphological diversity among the associated dark, septate fungi suggesting that more than one fungus could coexist in the same host root system.
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Johansson, M. Fungal associations of Danish Calluna vulgaris roots with special reference to ericoid mycorrhiza. Plant and Soil 231, 225–232 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010310921738
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