Anthracoidea paniceae. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].
Abstract A description is provided for Anthracoidea paniceae. Information is included on symptoms of an ovariicolous smut on Carex species caused by the organism. Details of its transmission, geographical distribution (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Yukon, Canada; Alaska and Maine, USA; Greenland; Inner Mongolia, China; Lena-Kolyma region, Arctic region, Kamchatka region, Kuril region, Okhotsk region, Sakhalin region, Ussuri region, Zeya-Bureya region, Tyumen oblast, Russia; Austria; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Faroe Islands; Finland; Germany; Iceland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Norway; Poland; Romania; Arctic region, Dvina-Pechora region, Karelian-Murmansk region and Ladoga-Ilmen region, Russia; Slovakia, Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Ukraine; and UK) and host range (Carex aurea, C. falcata, C. livida, C. panicea and C. vaginata) are provided.