Anthracoidea heterospora (Lindeberg) Kukkonen, 1963
on Carex
gall
the contents of the ultimately rupturing utriculi is transformed into a hard, black body consisting of agglutinated spores; initially it is covered by a silvery membrane, that later flakes off. The spores are 13-21 µm long, almost smooth.
host plants
Cyperaceae, narrowly monophagous
Carex acuta, aquatilis, cespitosa, elata & subsp. omskiana, halophila, lyngbyei, nigra, paleacea, recta, salina, trinervis.
occasionally C. buxbaumii.
references
Brandenburger (1985a: 874), Klenke (2002a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Scholler, Schnittler & Piepenbring (2003a), Scholz & Scholz (2013a), Vánky (1994).