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Melanotaenium endogenum (Unger) de Bary, 1874 (Bedstraw Smut)

1992 (Provisional) Red Data List Rare
2007 (Draft) Red Data List VU/D2

Suggested Literature

Melanotaenium endogenum 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)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Melanotaenium endogenum is associated with:

Photos sorus Galium mollugo - Hedge Bedstraw (Rubiaceae) embedded sorus causes swelling of live stem UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes thick, black, gall-like swellings, often at nodes of stunted shoots]
Photos sorus Galium mollugo - Hedge Bedstraw (Rubiaceae) embedded sorus causes swelling of live shoot UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos sorus Galium mollugo - Hedge Bedstraw (Rubiaceae) embedded sorus causes swelling of live leaf (base) UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes thick, black, gall-like swellings]
Photos sorus Galium verum - Lady’s Bedstraw (Rubiaceae) embedded sorus causes swelling of live leaf (base) UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes thick, black, gall-like swellings]
Photos sorus Galium verum - Lady’s Bedstraw (Rubiaceae) embedded sorus causes swelling of live stem UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes thick, black, gall-like swellings, often at nodes of stunted shoots]
Photos sorus Galium verum - Lady’s Bedstraw (Rubiaceae) embedded sorus causes swelling of live shoot UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Melanotaenium endogenum:

Melanotaenium endogenum 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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