Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Ustilago elegans Griff. Bull. Torrey Club 29: 292. 1902
Sori in the inflorescence, hidden by leaves and sheaths, sometimes showing through at the base, with a dusty black-brown spore-mass through which remains of the inflorescence are distributed as slender threads ; spores dark reddish-brown, ovoid to chiefly spherical, minutely and rather obscurely verruculose, 10-14 ^u in diameter.
On Poaceae :
Chloris elegans, Arizona. Type locality : Cochise, Arizona, on Chloris elegans. Distribution : Arizona.
- bibliographic citation
- George Perkins Clinton. 1906. USTILAGINALES; USTILAGINACEAE, TILLETIACEAE. North American flora. vol 7(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
