Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Urocystis ornithogali

Urocystis ornithogali Körnicke, 1877

on Gagea, Ornithogalum

gall

lead-coloured warts on and swellings in the leaves that upon rupturing release a black, granular-powdery mass of spore balls. A spore ball consists of 1-3 spores, completely wrapped in a layer of smaller sterile cells.

host plants

Asparagaceae, monophagous

Ornithogalum collinum, kurdicum, narbonense, oreoides, orthophyllum subsp. kochii, pyrenaicum, umbellatum.

references

Almaraz (1998a), Brandenburger (1985a: 715), Buhr (1964b), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), Denčev (1991a), Denchev & Denchev (2016a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Lotze-Engelhard (2010a), Savchenko & Heluta (2012a), Tomasi (2014a), Vánky (1994a), Vánky & Abbasi (2013a).

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