Epichloe sylvatica Leuchtmann & Schardl, 1998

on Brachypodium

cf Brachypodium sylvaticum, Hungary, Budapest, Kamaraerdő, 26.v.2021 © László Érsek. Identification of the grass, therefore also the fungus, only provisional!

detail

surface, showing the asci

lengthwise section; the length growth of the grass culm has been severely interrupted

transverse section

gall

One or more internodes all round and mostly over their total length, wrapped in a while, later yellowish fungal mass (stroma). The internodes are hardly or not at all swollen. In the stroma slender asci. The spores are filamentous, 180-200 µm long.

host plants

Poaceae, monophagous

Brachypodium sylvaticum.

notes

see the note under E. typhina.

references

Jage, Kruse, Kummer ao (2013a), Kruse (2019a), Moon (1999a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Rommelaars & Helleman (2010a), Schardl (2010a), Schardl & Leuchtmann (2004a), Spooner & Kemp (2005a).