Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Belonopsis asteroma

Belonopsis asteroma (Fuckel) Aebi, 1972

on Carex

parasite

Apothecia 2 mmm, grey with white mrgin, sessile on a thin suboculum on reddened lead bases. Ascospores hyaline, 3-4 x 35-55 µm, 3-septate.

parasite

host plants

Cyperaceae, monophagous

Carex acutiformis, riparia.

synonyms

Mollisia asteroma (Fuckel) Baral, 2008; Trichobelonium asteroma (Fuckel) Rehm, 1891.

references

Ellis & Ellis (1997a: 530).

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