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Ustilago marina Durieu, 1866 (Spike Rush Smut)

1992 (Provisional) Red Data List Extinct
2007 (Draft) Red Data List EX 1885

Suggested Literature

Ustilago marina 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 marina is associated with:

sorus Eleocharis parvula - Dwarf Spike-rush (Cyperaceae) embedded sorus parasitises live, swollen root UK/Ireland Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
sorus Eleocharis parvula - Dwarf Spike-rush (Cyperaceae) embedded sorus parasitises live culm (base) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
sorus Eleocharis parvula - Dwarf Spike-rush (Cyperaceae) embedded sorus parasitises live, swollen rhizome UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Associated with Ustilago marina:

Ustilago marina 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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