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Two new species of Moreaua (Ustilaginomycetes), on Actinoschoenus and Chrysitrix, from Western Australia
Roger G. Shivas, Matthew D. Barrett, Russell L. Barrett & Kálmán Vánky
Mycologia Balcanica 8: 137–140 (2011)
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2550688
Published online: 13 December 2011
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Two new species of Moreaua are described from endemic species of Cyperaceae (sedges) in Western Australia. Moreaua actinoschoeni occurs on Actinoschoenus sp. in the far north, and M. chrysitricis occurs on Chrysitrix distigmatosa in the mid west. These are the first smut fungi to be found on these two genera of sedges. Moreaua chrysitricis is the third smut fungus to have been found on a sedge in the subfamily Mapanioideae.

Actinoschoenus, Chrysitrix, Cyperoideae, Moreaua, new species, smut fungi, taxonomy