Thecaphora genistae-tinctoriae Maublanc, 1937

Fungi, Basidiomycota, Ustilaginomycetes, Urocystidales

on Genista

gall

the seeds are transformed into a brown powdery mass of spores.

hostplants

Fabaceae, monophagous

Genista tinctoria.

notes

The only material known of this species (from France) was lost even before it could correctly be described.

references

Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Vánky (1994a).

16/08/2014