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Ustilago maydis (DC.) Corda, Icon. fung. (Prague) 5: 3 (1842)

Uredo maydis DC., Fl. Fr. Edn 3 (Paris) 5: 77 (1815)
Ustilago zeae (Beckm.) Unger, Uber Einfluss Bodens Vertheilung Gewachse: 211 (1836)

Habitat: In the inflorescences and aerial parts of Zea mays.

Notes: Occasional but increasing, wherever the host is cultivated.

Distribution: E: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 27792

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D:, in Mordue, J.E.M. & Ainsworth, G.C., Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Mycological Paper No. 154: Ustilaginales of the British Isles: 96 pp. (1984), as Ustilago zeae, p. 61
D:, in Vánky, K., European Smut Fungi: 570 pp. (1994), p. 366

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