BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Microbotryum stygium (Liro) Vánky, 1998 (a smut fungus)

Suggested Literature

Microbotryum stygium 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 stygium is associated with:

sorus Rumex acetosa - Common Sorrel (Polygonaceae) embedded sorus causes swelling of live stem (upper part) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
sorus Rumex acetosa - Common Sorrel (Polygonaceae) embedded sorus parasitises live leaf Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
sorus Rumex acetosa - Common Sorrel (Polygonaceae) embedded sorus infects and damages live flower UK/Ireland Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Associated with Microbotryum stygium:

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