1. PaDIL Factsheet

Scientific Name: caryophylleae Kukkonen , , Ustilaginales,

Common Name Carex Smut Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/aus-smuts/Pest/Main/139900

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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) Carex Smut(Anthracoidea caryophylleae)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/139900

2.3. Facets Columella: absent Distribution: NSW, TAS Peridium: present Sorus position: inflorescence Sorus shape: globose to short cylindrical Spore balls: absent Spore mass texture: powdery Spore shape: irregular, ovoid to ellipsoidal, polyhedral or subpolyhedral Spore surface ornamentation: punctate, smooth, verruculose Sterile cells: absent Status: Native Australian Species Host Family: Cyperaceae

2.4. Diagnostic Notes **Sori** in some ovaries of an inflorescence, forming hard black globose bodies, 1–2 mm diam.; when young covered by a thin greyish membrane, later powdery on the surface, partly hidden by the utricles.

**Spores** medium-sized, slightly flattened (11–13 µm thick), in plane view 16–24 (–27) × 15–20 µm, ovate, subpolygonal to irregular, dark reddish brown; wall 1–3 µm thick, thickest at the angles, usually with 1–3 internal swellings and sometimes with light-refractive spots in the thickest areas; surface ±smooth to finely and densely verruculose or sparsely punctate; spore profile appearing smooth, indistinctly wavy or very finely serrulate; in SEM, sparsely to densely verruculose with low rounded warts; between the warts the surface is minutely and densely verruculose.

**Spore germination** of _Anthracoidea_-type. 3. Diagnostic Images

Anthracoidea caryophylleae on Carex Anthracoidea caryophylleae on Carex sp. - breviculmis - DAR 56788.Scale bar = 5 mm. DAR 6160. Scale bar = 10 µm. Host symptoms: Roger Shivas DEEDI Light micrograph: Roger Shivas DEEDI

Anthracoidea caryophylleae on Carex Anthracoidea caryophylleae on Carex sp. - breviculmis. - VPRI 2907. Scale bar = 10 DAR 6160. Scale bar = 10 µm. µm. Scanning Electron Micrograph: Desley Tree Light micrograph: Roger Shivas DEEDI DEEDI

Results Generated: Monday, September 27, 2021