Uromyces cacaliae (de Candolle) Unger, 1836

on Adenostyles

Adenostyles alliariae, Italy, Great St Bernard pass, 2330 m, 3.viii.2018 © Cor Zonneveld

leaf spot at the upper side of a telium

hypophyllous telium

gall

No hos tplant alternation, only telia. They are small, dark brown, pulverulent, on discoloured but never galled leaf spots. Teliospores one-celled, short-elliptic; wall smoth, of uniform thickness, germination pore apical, covered by a clear papilla. Pedicel hyaline, short, fragile.

host plants

Asteraceae, monophagous

Adenostyles alliariae, alpina.

synonyms

the Index Fungorum (2016) synonymizes the species with Coleosporium tussilaginis; this must be a mistake.

references

Blumer (1946a), González-Fragoso (1925a), Jage, Scholler & Klenke (2010a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Negrean (1996b).