Anemone Smut - Urocystis anemones
Anemone Smut (Urocystis anemones) affects various members of the anemone family especially Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa), causing blister like swellings beneath the epidermis which rupture to produce dark brown spore-balls. The spore balls consist of 1 or more brown spores, surrounded by some hyaline sterile cells.
host 
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on Wood Anemone; in woodlands
Scarce; very few records known
Graham Calow
Burbage Wood
16 April 2019
gall on Wood Anemone - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Burbage Wood
01 May 2023
smut on Wood Anemone
Graham Calow
Burbage Wood
16 April 2019
gall on Wood Anemone - specimen examined
Melinda Bell
Worthinton,Cloud Wood
23 April 2025
spore-balls
Graham Calow
Burbage Wood
01 May 2023
smut on Wood Anemone
Graham Calow
Burbage Wood
01 May 2023
smut on Wood Anemone
Graham Calow
Burbage Wood
01 May 2023
smut on Wood Anemone
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Species profile
- Common names
- Anemone Smut
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Urocystidales
- Family:
- Urocystidaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 6
- First record:
- 16/04/2019 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 02/04/2026 (Bell, Melinda)
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