Caeoma cernuae Lindfors, 1910

on Saxifraga

gall

Spermogonia reddish brown, lenticular. hypophyllous among the aecia. Aecia hypophyllous, yellow; among the spores capitate paraphyses, the heads of the same size as the aeciospores.

hostplants

Saxifragaceae, narrowly monophagous

Saxifraga cernua.

notes

Scandinavian species. The ultimate part of the life cycle of th species is unknown; Possibly it concenrs a Melampsora species, alternating with Salix. Check here about the the genus Caeoma.

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 216), Gäumann (1959a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a).

03/12/2016