BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Microbotryum flosculorum (DC) Vánky, 1998 (an anther smut)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #macrophotos #microphotos
Microbotryum flosculorum Fruitbody 17 July 1999 Berks England 6 7

Suggested Literature

Microbotryum flosculorum 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 flosculorum is associated with:

sorus Knautia arvensis - Field Scabious (Dipsacaceae) embedded sorus parasitises live anther UK/Ireland Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
sorus Succisa pratensis - Devil's-bit, Devil's-bit Scabious (Dipsacaceae) embedded sorus parasitises live anther UK/Ireland Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Microbotryum flosculorum:

Microbotryum flosculorum 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
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006 Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi