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Ainsworth, G.C. & Sampson, K., 1950

The British Smut Fungi (Ustilaginales )

The first 50 pages cover biology and techniques, followed by 60 pages devoted to identification. The species accounts (half a page to a page in length) are interspersed in a dichotomous key.

Publisher Commonwealth Mycological Institute (CMI)
Pages 137
Coverage All the British species known at the time.
Illustrations Two plates of black and white photographs of infections, line drawings of spores and germination.
Identify Under a Compound Microscope.
Specimen Prep. Microscope slides.

Malcolm Storey

Taxonomic Scope

USTILAGINALES G. Winter, 1880 (an order of smut fungi) Identification Superseded Now superceded by Mordue and Ainsworth, 1984, which added 16 spp to the 1950 list.

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