Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Urocystis avenae-elatioris

Urocystis avenae-elatioris (Kochman) Zundel, 1953

on Arrhenatherum

gall

Elongate narrow blisters between the nerves of the leaf. The brownish black spore balls that are released here consist of 1-3 spores, wrapped in an almost continuous layer of lesser sterile cells.

host plants

Poaceae, monophagous

Arrhenatherum elatius.

synonyms

Urocystis arrhenatheri (Kuprevič) Săvulescu, 1951

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 805), Buhr (1964b), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Scholz & Scholz (2013a), Spooner & Leon (2006a), Tomasi (2014a), Vanderweyen & Fraiture (2014a), Vánky (1994a)

Last modified 13.xii.2022