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Urocystis sorosporioides Körn., 1876 (a smut fungus)

Suggested Literature

Urocystis sorosporioides may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
USTILAGINOMYCETES
(ustilaginomycetes)
USTILAGINOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of ustilaginomycetes)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Urocystis sorosporioides is associated with:

Thalictrum minus - Lesser Meadow-rue (Ranunculaceae) causes swelling of petiole Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes blisters which eventually rupture to expose spore mass]
Thalictrum minus - Lesser Meadow-rue (Ranunculaceae) causes swelling of stem Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes blisters which eventually rupture to expose spore mass]
Thalictrum minus - Lesser Meadow-rue (Ranunculaceae) causes swelling of leaf Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes blisters which eventually rupture to expose spore mass]
Photos Aquilegia - columbines (Ranunculaceae) causes gall of leaf UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos Thalictrum - meadow-rues (Ranunculaceae) causes gall of stem Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
Photos Thalictrum - meadow-rues (Ranunculaceae) causes gall of leaf UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986

Associated with Urocystis sorosporioides:

Urocystis sorosporioides may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls

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