Pezizaceae

Berch, Shannon M., Witte, Thomas E. & Tanney, Joey B., 2023, Preliminary assessment of the ectomycorrhizal fungi of Quercus garryana on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, Botany 101 (6), pp. 424-448 : 441

Pezizaceae

We detected two Peziza species, two at DN and one at VP. Peziza ostracoderma Korf, 1960 has been detected in ECMs of Fagus sylvatica L. and Q. robur seedlings in a bare-root nursery experiment in Europe ( Bzdyk et al. 2018). The other Peziza SH 1643050.08FU matches sequences with various names that are associated with mostly hardwood trees including some Quercus .

Pachyphlodes species occur in the Northern Hemisphere where they form ECMs with hosts in the Betulaceae , Fagaceae , and Juglandaceae ( Piña Páez et al. 2021) . Pachyphlodes thysellii (W. Colgan & Trappe) Doweld, 2013 is reported from Minnesota, Washington, and Wisconsin in the USA and from Quebec in Canada (Rosanne Healy, pers. comm.) and now from Garry oak roots at LZ though it had not previously been reported from BC ( Kroeger and Berch 2017).

A Trichophaea species is a well-known ECM fungus that associates with species of oak and hazelnut ( Rubini et al. 2011). At DN, we detected a Trichophaea species that has previously been detected only in ECMs of Quercus wislizeni A.DC. , Quercus kelloggii Newb. , and Quercus douglasii Hook. & Arn. in California (UNITE SH1651287.08FU). A second sequence that clusters loosely with our Trichophaea was detected at SP; its closest match at 92.33% originated in a soil sample from the Arctic ( Timling et al. 2014).