Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Entorrhiza cypericola

Entorrhiza cypericola (Magnus) Weber, 1884

on Cyperus

gall

Root tips with cylindrical, fleshy appendages of up to 1.5 cm long and 2 mm thick, containing a light yellow mass of spores.

host plants

Cyperaceae, monophagous

Pycreus (= Cyperus) flavescens.

Roskam cites Carex spp. and Juncus, but according to Vánky this is not correct.

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 862) , Buhr (1964b), Fineran (1973a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Roskam (2009a), Savchenko & Heluta (2012a), Scholz (1968a), Tomasi (2014a), Vánky (1994a).

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