Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Ustilago Shiraiana P. Henn. Bot. Jahrb. Cintractia Bambtisae Miyabe & Hori; Yoshino, Bot. Mag. Tokyo 19: (199). 1905.
Sori surrounding the stems, especially on the young end-branches, rarely in closely placed striae or pustules on the older stems, at first covered by the epidermis but soon naked, forming oblong to linear-cylindric, agglutinated to semi-dusty, black-brown outbreaks, chiefly 5-10 mm. in length, more or less concealed by sheaths of the leaves, often producing witches-broom effect; spores light-brown, chiefly subspheric to spheric but occasionally more elongate, smooth, chiefly 5-9 m but occasionally on some hosts more than 11 M in length.
On Poaceae:
Phylloslachys bambusoides , California, Florida. lyOuisiana. Phyllostachys Hetwnis. California. Louisiana. Phylloslachys Quilioi, Louisiana. Phylloslachys sp.. Florida, Mississippi. Type uoCALiri': Nikko. Japan, on Bambusa Veitchii.
Distribution: Japan. China and India; introduced in the United States occasionally on imported specimens but apparently not yet escaped.
- bibliographic citation
- George Lorenzo Ingram Zundel, John Hendley Barnhart. 1939. (USTILAGINALES); ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, HOST-INDEX. North American flora. vol 7(14). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
