Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Melampsora laricis-epitea

Melampsora laricis-epitea Klebahn, 1899

on Larix

gall

see Caeoma laricis.

spermogonia, aecia

Pinaceae, monophagous

Larix decidua, kaempferi, sibirica.


on Salix

Melampsora laricis-epitea: paraphyses, urediniospores

Salix herbacea, from González-Fragoso (1925a): paraphyses, urediniospores

gall

uredinia amphigenous, on yellow leaf spots, up to 1.5 mm, orange yellow. Throughout the uredinium stand distinctly capitate paraphyses. Urediniospores short-, 9-19 x 12-5 µm, oval, entirely spinulose. Telia up to 1 mm, often in groups, brown, dark subepidermal; teliospores columnar.

uredinia, telia

Salicaceae, narrowly monophagous

Salix aurita, caprea, cinerea, daphnoides & subsp. acutifolia, glabra, hastata, hegetschweileri, helvetica, herbacea, myrsinifolia, purpurea, reticulata, retusa, viminalis, waldsteiniana.

Rarely S. appendiculata, apennina, arbuscula, bicolor, caesia, elaeagnos, x fragilis, glauca, glaucosericea, gmelimii, mielichhoferi, phylicifolia, pulchra, serpyllifolia.

synonyms

conceived by some authors as component of one complex species with aecia on a wide range of hosts, and uredinia and telia on Salix: Melampsora epitea.

references

Blumer (1946a), Brandenburger (1985a: 17, 44), Dietrich (2013a), Doppelbaur & Doppelbaur (1973a), Gäumann (1959a), González-Fragoso (1925a), Jage, Klenke, Kruse oo (2016a), Jage, Kruse, Kummer ao (2013a), Jage, Scholler & Klenke (2010a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kruse (2014a, Kruse & Jage (2014a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Schmid-Heckel (1985a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Tomasi (2003a).

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