Urocystis cortusae (Liro) Schwarzman, 1960
on Cortusa
gall
The seeds in the capsule are transformed into a blackish brown mass of spora balls that are released when the ripe fruit opens at the tip. The spore balls are composed of 1-7 spores that are entirely or partly wrapped in a, sometimes locally double, layer of smaller sterile cells.
hostplants
Primulaceae, monophagous
Cortusa matthioli.
references
Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Vánky (1994a).