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New smuts (Ustilaginales) on grasses from Western Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1997

R. G. SHIVAS
Affiliation:
Plant Protection Branch, Department of Agriculture, South Perth, Western Australia 6151, Australia
K. VÁNKY
Affiliation:
Universität Tübingen, Botanisches Institute, Spezielle Botanik und Mycologie, Auf der Morgenstelle, 1, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Abstract

Three new species of smut fungi (Ustilaginales) on grasses from Western Australia are described and illustrated: Sporisorium ordense sp. nov. on Brachiaria pubigera, Sporisorium paraneurachnes sp. nov. on Paraneurachne muelleri and Ustilago xerochloae sp. nov. on Xerochloa imberbis and X. laniflora. Smut fungi new to Australia are: Sporisorium heteropogonicola comb. nov. (based on Sorosporium heteropogonicola) on Heteropogon contortus, Sporisorium iseilamatis on Iseilema vaginiflorum (matrix nova), Tilletia opaca on Spinifex longifolius (matrix nova), Ustilago spermophora on Sporobolus australasicus (matrix nova). Sporisorium mitchellii, known hitherto from South Australia on Iseilema mitchellii, was collected on Iseilema dolicotrichum (matrix nova).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
The British Mycological Society 1997

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