Polygonum aviculare, Belgium, prov. Limbourg, Sint-Martens-Voeren © Carina Van Steenwinkel: uredinia

telium on a stem

urediniospores

teliospores

teliospores

Polygonum aviculare, England, Vice County: Berks, VC22 © Malcolm Storey, BioImages

teliospores

gall

No host plant alternation. Aecia hypophyllous, cupulate, peridium white, spores yellow. Uredinia and telia mainly hypophyllous, but also on the stems, light brown and dark brown, respectively. Urediniospores with (2)3(4) germination pores.

host plants

Polygonaceae, narrowly oligophagous

? Bistorta officinalis; Persicaria dubia, lapathifolia; Polygonum acerosum, arenarium & subsp. pulchellum, arenastrum, aviculare, bellardii, cognatum, equisetiforme, maritimum, paronychioides, patulum, polycnemoides, raii, ramossissimum, setosum subsp. luzuloides; Rumex acetosella & subsp. angiocarpus, arifolius, pulcher.

synonyms

Uromyces polygoni (Rabenhorst) Fuckel, 1870.

references

Bahçecioğlu & Kabaktepe (2012a), Bahçecioğlu, Kabaktepe & Yildiz (2006a), Beltran Tejera (1976a), Blumer (1946a), Brandenburger (1985a: 86), Buhr (1965a), Ellis & Ellis (1997a), Erdoğdu, Hüseyin & Suludere (2010a), Gäumann (1959a), Gjaerum (1986a, 1987a), González-Fragoso, Hafellner (1980a), Henderson (2000a), Jage, Klenke, Kruse ao (2016a), Jage, Kruse, Kummer ao (2013a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kozłowska, Mułenko & Heluta (2015a), Kruse (2019a), Kruse & Jage (2014a), Losa España (1942a, 1944a), Maire (1943a), Negrean (1996b, 1997a), Özaslan, Hüseyin & Erdogdu (2014a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Riegler-Hagler (2002b), Savchenko, Heluta, Wasser & Nevo (2014e), Săvulescu & Rayss (1935a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Unamuno (1941a, 1942a), Vanderweyen & Fraiture (2008a), Wilson & Henderson (1966a), Woods, Stringer, Evans & Chater (2015a).