1. PaDIL Species Factsheet
Scientific Name: Anthracoidea carphae (Speg.) Vánky Basidiomycota, Ustilaginomycetes, Ustilaginales, Anthracoideaceae
Common Name Carpha Smut Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/aus-smuts/Pest/Main/139899
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Queensland Government https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/ 2. Species Information
2.1. Details Specimen Contact: Roger Shivas - [email protected] Author: Roger Shivas Citation: Roger Shivas (2010) Carpha Smut(Anthracoidea carphae)Updated on 11/16/2010 Available online: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au Image Use: Free for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY- NC 4.0)
2.2. URL Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/aus-smuts/Pest/Main/139899
2.3. Facets Columella: absent Distribution: ACT, TAS Peridium: present Sorus position: inflorescence Sorus shape: long cylindrical, globose to short cylindrical Spore balls: absent Spore mass texture: powdery Spore shape: globose or subglobose, irregular, ovoid to ellipsoidal, polyhedral or subpolyhedral Spore surface ornamentation: verruculose Sterile cells: absent Status: Native Australian Species Host Family: Cyperaceae
2.4. Other Names Cintractia carphae (Speg.) Hirschh. Cintractia waiouru G. Cunn. Ustilago carphae Speg.
2.5. Diagnostic Notes **Sori** in some ovaries, more rarely in all ovaries of an inflorescence, forming hard black ovoid to elongate bodies with a powdery surface, 2.5–3.5 mm long, 1.5–2.0 mm wide, partly hidden by the glumes; when young covered by a thin greyish fungal membrane that soon flakes away.
**Spores** slightly flattened, 12–14 µm thick, in plane view subcircular, ellipsoidal, subpolyangular to moderately irregular, 17–25 (–27) × 15–20 µm, reddish brown; wall uniformly 1.0–1.5 µm thick, or thicker at the angles (to 3 µm), finely and densely uniformly verruculose; light-refractive areas sparse; internal swellings absent; spore profile smooth, finely wavy or finely serrulate. 3. Diagnostic Images
Anthracoidea carphae on Carpha alpina - Anthracoidea carphae on Carpha alpina - DAR 74998. Scale bar = 5 mm. DAR 74998. Scale bar = 10 µm. Host symptoms: Roger Shivas DEEDI Light micrograph: Roger Shivas DEEDI
Anthracoidea carphae on Carpha alpina - Anthracoidea carphae on Carpha alpina - DAR 74998. Scale bar = 10 µm. DAR 74998. Scale bar = 10 µm. Scanning Electron Micrograph: Desley Tree Scanning Electron Micrograph: Desley Tree DEEDI DEEDI
Results Generated: Sunday, October 3, 2021