BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Tilletia caries (DC.) Tul. & C. Tul., 1847 (Bunt Of Wheat)
| 1992 (Provisional) Red Data List | Endangered |
| 2007 (Draft) Red Data List | EN/B |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tilletia caries | Infection | 27 June 1972 | South Wiltshire | England | 1 |
Suggested Literature
Tilletia caries may be covered by literature listed under:
|
BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers) |
USTILAGINOMYCETES (ustilaginomycetes) |
Tilletia (a genus of smut fungi) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Tilletia caries is associated with:
| sorus | Secale cereale - Rye (Poaceae) | embedded sorus infects and damages ovary | 
|
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [More or less eliminated by modern fungicides] | |
| sorus | Triticum - wheats (Poaceae) | embedded sorus infects and damages ovary |
|
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [More or less eliminated by modern fungicides] Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [sori partly hidden by glumes] |
Associated with Tilletia caries:
Tilletia caries 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 |
