Myosotis spec., Belgium, prov. Antwerp, Geel, Wilders © Carina Van Steenwinkel

gall

vage, round, whitish to brown, up to 3 mm large leaf spots. Embedded in the tissue smooth, yellowish brown spores.

host plants

Boraginaceae, monophagous

Myosotis alpestris, amoena, arvensis, discolor, laxa subsp. baltica + caespitosa, ramossisima, scorpioides, soleirolii, stricta, sylvatica.

notes

Tomasi (2014a) lists the fungus from Asarum europaeum. This certainly in incorrect. But the intriguing fact remains the the book by Vánky does not mention any smut fungus from Asarum, which excluded a simple identification error.

references

Ainsworth & Sampson (1950a), Almaraz (1998a), Gönczö & Révay (1981a), Brandenburger (1985a: 521), Klenke (2002a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kruse, Thiel, Frauenberger ao (2019a), Kummer (2009a), Lutz & Vánky (2009a), Savchenko & Heluta (2012a), Scheuer & Bechter (2012a), Scholler, Reinhard & Schubert (1996a), Scholz & Scholz (2013a), Tomasi (2014a), Vanderweyen & Fraiture (2014a), Vánky (1994a, 2012a), Vánky & Abbasi (2013a).