Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sorosporium everhartii Ellis & Gall. Jour. Myc. 6 : 32. 1890
Tolyposporium Everhartii Dietel, in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1^** : 14. 1897.
Sori in ovaries of the spikelets, linear, about 1-2 cm. in length, with prominent false membrane dehiscing from apex into several lobes, with black-brown agglutinated sporemass that wears away from apex disclosing the flattened columella of plant tissue ; sporeballs oblong to subspherical, composed of many rather firmly agglutinated spores, usually 55-125 ," in length ; spores reddishbrown, inner often nearly hyaline, polyhedral or sometimes ovoid to subspherical, smooth or outermost spores granularverruculose, chiefly 8-12/^ in length.
On Poaceae :
Andropogon glomeratus {A. macrourus), Florida.
Andropogon virginicus, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, New Jersey.
Schizachyrium scoparium {Andropogon scoparius), Alabama, Connecticut. Type locality: Newfield, New Jersey, on Andropogon virginicus. Distribution : Connecticut to Florida and Mississippi.
- bibliographic citation
- George Perkins Clinton. 1906. USTILAGINALES; USTILAGINACEAE, TILLETIACEAE. North American flora. vol 7(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY