Miyagia pseudosphaeria (Montagne) Jørstad, 1962
on Sonchus
Sonchus arvensis, Nieuwendam: (old) uredinia and telia, hypophyllous
old uredinium, surrounded by a ring of telia

the uredinium is encircled by a row of purplish brown paraphyses

detail of the paraphyses


urediniospores

the telia remain covered by the epidermis

teliospores


the teliospores are unusually angular

Sonchus palustris, Amsterdam-West, Lange Bretten

underside, with uredinia (leaves with telia were older and looked diseased)
gall
no host alternation; only uredinia and telia. Also the telia are surrounded, and sometimes compartimentalised, by rows of paraphyses. Less often than one-celled teliospores also two-celled ones do occur.
host plants
Asteraceae, monophagous
Sonchus acaulis, arvensis & subsp. uliginosus, asper & subsp. glaucescens, brachylobus, canariensis, congestus, daltonii, gummifer, hierrensis, leptocephalus, maritimus, mauritancus, oleraceus, palmensis, palustris, pendulus, platylepis, radicatus, tenerrimus.
synonyms
Peristemma pseudosphaeria (Montagne, 1840) Jørstad, 1956; Puccinia pseudosphaeria Montagne, 1840; Puccinia sonchi Roberge, 1849.
references
Beltran Tejera (1976a), Brandenburger (1972a, 1985a: 694), Buhr (1965a), Ellis & Ellis (1997a), Gäumann (1959a), Gjaerum (1976a, 1984a, 1987a), Gjaerum & Dennis (1976a), Gjaerum & Sunding (1986a), González Fragoso (1924a), Jage, Klenke, Kruse ao (2016a), Henderson (2000a, 2004a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kruse (2019a), Kruse & Jage (2014a), Losa España (1942a), Maier, Wingfield, Mennicken & Wingfield (2007a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Roldan Garrigós & Honrubia García (1992a), Savchenko, Heluta, Wasser & Nevo (2014c), Savchenko, Wasser, Heluta & Nevo (2019a), Săvulescu & Rayss (1935a), Spooner & Butterfill (1999a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Vanderweyen & Fraiture (2008a), Wilson & Henderson (1966a), Zwetko & Poelt (1989a), Woods, Stringer, Evans & Chater (2015a).