Anemone (Pulsatilla) pratensis, Denmark © Simon Haarder; det Thomas Læssøe

gall

No host plant alternation; no aecia or uredinia. Spermogonia epiphyllous, brown, mostly missing. Telia hypophyllous, brown, pulverulent, without paraphyses, causing no leaf spots. Spores two-celled (but easily falling apart), the cells strongly verrucose, the top one globular, the lower one often more elongated.

hostplants

Ranunculaceae, narrowly monophagous

Pulsatilla alpina, halleri & subsp. styriaca, montana, patens, pratensis, vernalis, vulgaris.

synonyms

Tranzschelia suffusca (Holway) Arthur, 1934.

references

Brandenburger (1985a), Buhr (1964b), Dauhpin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), Gäumann (1959a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a).