Ustilaginaceae
Sporisorium andrewmitchellii R.G.Shivas, McTaggart & Vánky , legitimate, scientific
Crous, P.W., Summerell, B.A., Shivas, R.G. et al. (4 June 2012), Fungal Planet description sheets: 107–127. Persoonia 28: 155 FungI [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Typus. Australia, Western Australia, Central Hamersley Ranges, S22°43'20.0", E119°19'37.0", on Enneapogon aff. lindleyanus, 1 July 2011, A.A. Mitchell & B. Matthews, holotype BRIP 54879, isotype PERTH, HUV 21.982 ..."
  • Text: identifier: MB 800262
  • Text: Fungal Planet description sheet 114, with authors indicated as “Shivas, R.G., McTaggart, A.R. & Vánky, K.”
  • Text: DNA sequence: from culture ex-type: GenBank JQ995369 (ITS), JQ995370 (LSU)
  • Etymology: "Named after Andrew Arthur Mitchell (1949 –), a botanist and friend, who has collected many rare and unusual smut fungi on grasses and sedges in Australia."
Piątek, M., Lutz, M. & Yorou, N.S. (2 September 2015), A molecular phylogenetic framework for Anthracocystis (Ustilaginales), including five new combinations (inter alia for the asexual Pseudozyma flocculosa), and description of Anthracocystis grodzinskae sp. nov. Mycological Progress 14: 9 [basionym]
basionym of: Anthracocystis andrewmitchellii (R.G.Shivas, McTaggart & Vánky) M.Lutz & Piątek legitimate