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Ustilago hordei (Pers.) Lagerh., 1889 (Covered Smut (Barley & Oats))

2007 (Draft) Red Data List VU/B

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Waller, J.M. & Mordue, J.E.M., 1983 Ustilaago hordei
Waller, J.M. & Mordue, J.E.M., 1983 Ustilaago hordei

Ustilago hordei may also 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 hordei is associated with:

Photos sorus Poaceae - grasses - formerly Graminae embedded sorus infects and damages live spikelet Foreign Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos sorus Avena - oats (Poaceae) embedded sorus infects and damages live spikelet Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
sorus Hordeum vulgare sens. lat. - Six-rowed Barley (Poaceae) embedded sorus infects and damages live spikelet UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [sori remain partly or completely covered by glumes]

Associated with Ustilago hordei:

Ustilago hordei 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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