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Microbotryum violaceum (Pers.) G. Deml & Oberw., 1982 (Sea Campion Anther Smut)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Microbotryum violaceum 10 June 2004 East Kent England 1
Microbotryum violaceum Fruitbody 28 April 2001 Dorset England 2

Suggested Literature

Microbotryum violaceum 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)
Microbotryum
(anther smuts)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Microbotryum violaceum is associated with:

Photos sorus Lychnis flos-cuculi - Ragged Robin (Caryophyllaceae) embedded sorus infects and damages live anther Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos sorus Silene uniflora - Sea Campion (Caryophyllaceae) embedded sorus infects and damages live anther Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006

Associated with Microbotryum violaceum:

Microbotryum violaceum may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

References

Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006 Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi

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