Microbotryum silenes-acaulis Lutz, Piątek, Kemler & Chlebicki, 2008
Fungi, Basidiomycota, Microbotryomycetes, Microbotryales
on Silene
gall
the anthers are transgormed into a dark brown-purple mass of spores. All flowers in an inflorescence are affected, and also most flowers in a clump of plants.
hostplants
Cryophyllaceae, narrowly monophagous
Silene acaulis.
notes
in a tussock of female plants the flowers are forced by the fungus to produce stamens (Smith ao).
references
Bueker, Eberlein, Gladieux,Schaefer, Snirc, Bennett, Begerow Hood & Giraud (2016a), Denchev, Stoykov, Sameva & Assyov (2011a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Lutz, Piątek, Kemler, Chlebicki & Oberwinkler (2008a), Scholz & Scholz (2013a), Smith, Lutz, Ziegler & Piątek (2017a).
22/12/2016