Leohumicola verrucosa is a heat-resistant,[1]endophytic, ericoid mycorrhizal soil fungus.[2][3] Its species name refers to rough, warty or spine-like ornamentations on its aleurioconidia.[1]L. verrucosa was first described from samples of soil exposed to fire; among these it was especially abundant in regularly burned blueberry fields in eastern Canada.[1]L. verrucosa forms mycorrhizal relationships with a wide variety and distribution of species in the Ericaceae family.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
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