Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sorosporium confusum H. S. Jackson, Bull. Torrey Club 35: 148. I90R
Sori in the ovaries, enclosed by the enveloping glumes, .V4 mm. in length, elongate, covered by a delicate membrane which ruptures irregularly disclosing a dark-brown granular spore-mass; spore-balls somewhat irregular, easily separating into spores when mature, chiefly 45-100 p in length, occasionally somewhat smaller; spores reddish-brown, subspheric or polyhedral, often flattened and then appearing elongate or subcircular in section, according to view, verruculose, chiefly 1 1-14 ii (rarely as small as 9.5 or as large as 15 /i) in length.
On Poaceae:
Aristida dichotoma, California, Delaware, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Aristida hngespica (A. gracilis), Indiana. ?ArisUda pnrpuYas(ens. Alabama. Aristida sp.. Colorado, Texas. Type locality: Newark, Delaware.
Distribution: Delaware to Ohio and Alabama to California.
- 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
