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New and poorly known smut fungi in Cuba

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

MEIKE PIEPENBRING
Affiliation:
Universität Tübingen, Botanisches Institut, Lehrstuhl Spezielle Botanik/Mykologie, Auf der Morgenstelle 1, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Abstract

Recent field work on smut fungi in Cuba yielded one new species and, among many new records, several poorly known species which are described and illustrated. The new species, Cintractia cubensis on Rhynchospora microcephala, is characterized by rather large, dark, and finely foveolate teliospores which can germinate with basidia of only two basidial cells. The poorly known C. samanensis was found on the new host Rhynchospora fascicularis ssp. fascicularis. Entyloma guaraniticum on Bidens pilosa differs from E. bidentis on the same host by thick-walled teliospores embedded in the mesophyll of leaves deforming them. Spores of E. bidentis are smaller and do not deform the leaf. Sphacelotheca everhartii on Andropogon virginicus, S. microspora on Paspalum notatum, and S. panici-leucophaei on Trichachne insularis are transferred into Sporisorium.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
The British Mycological Society 1999

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Footnotes

Part 151 in the series ‘Studies in Heterobasidiomycetes’ from the Botanical Institute, University of Tübingen.