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Ustilago filiformis (Schrank) Rostr., 1890 (a grass smut)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Ustilago filiformis Infection 9 July 2005 Oxon England 3
Ustilago filiformis Fruitbody 25 May 2000 Berks England 8 3

Suggested Literature

Ustilago filiformis 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)
USTILAGINALES
(an order of smut fungi)
Ustilago
(a genus of smut fungi)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Ustilago filiformis is associated with:

sorus Glyceria fluitans - Floating Sweet-grass (Poaceae) embedded sorus infects and damages live leaf UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [shoots of smutted plants seldom flower]
Photos sorus Glyceria maxima - Reed Sweet-grass (Poaceae) embedded sorus infects and damages live leaf UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [shoots of smutted plants seldom flower]

Associated with Ustilago filiformis:

Ustilago filiformis 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

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