Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Microbotryum violaceoirregulare

Microbotryum violaceoirregulare (Brandenburger & Schwinn) Deml & Oberwinker, 1982

on Silene

gall

the anthers are transformed into a dark brownish-violet mass of spores.

host plants

Caryophyllaceae, narrowly monophagous

Silene vulgaris.

synonyms

Ustilago violaceo-irregularis Brandenburger & Schwinn, 1974.

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 114), Denchev (1994a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kruse (2019a [“M. violaceo-irregulare”]), Vánky (1994a).

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