Sporisorium scitamineum (Sydow) Piepenbring, Stoll & Oberwinkler, 2002
on Saccharum
gall
“sugarcane smut”. the inflorescence and its axis is transformed into a, generally sharply bent whip, covered by a blackish brown mass of spores.
hostplants
Poaceae, monophagous
Saccharum officinarum.
synonyms
Ustilago scitaminea Sydow, 1924.
references
Vánky (1994a), Vánky & Abbasi (2013a).