Puccinia aegopodii (Schumacher) Link, 1817
on Aegopodium
Aegopodium podagraria, Belgium, prov. Limbourg, Kinrooi, Groot Broek © Carina Van Steenwinkel
underside of an infected leaf
teliospores
sometimes the teliospores show a few fine vertical lines (e.g. spore left below).

Aegopodium podagraria, Hungary, Halászi © László Érsek

telia on locally strongly galled spots

also on the petioles

Aegopodium podagraria, Ommen het Laar: telia © Arnold Grosscurt

Aegopodium podagraria, Sleenerzand; © Arnold Grosscurt

telia especially developed on the veins and petioles
gall
Spermogonia and aecia missing; uredinia absent as well, although sometimes a few urediniospores are found mixed with the teliospores. Telia mainly hypophyllous, most on thick veins and petioles. Teliospores two-celled with a apical papilla; they develop on long, deciduous pedicels.
host plants
Apiaceae, monophagous
Aegopodium podagraria.
Hypoerparasite
notes
The infection may easily be confused with the one by Septoria aegopodii.
references
Blumer (1946a), Brandenburger (1985a: 425), Buhr (1964b), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), Ellis & Ellis (1997a), Gäumann (1959a), González Fragoso (1924a), Henderson (2000a), Jage, Kruse, Kummer ao (2013a), Jage, Scholler & Klenke (2010a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Koops (2013a), Kozłowska, Mułenko & Heluta (2015a), Kruse (2014a, 2019a), Kruse & Jage (2014a), Maier, Wingfield, Mennicken & Wingfield (2007a), Mułenko, Sałata & Wołczańska (1995a), Negrean (1996b), Preece & Hick (1994a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Riegler-Hagler (2002b, 2014a), Roskam (2009a, 2019a), Ruszkiewicz-Michalska (2006a), Scheuer & Bechter (2012a), Scholler & Schubert (1993a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Tomasi (2014a), Vanderweyen & Fraiture (2011a), Wilson & Henderson (1966a), Woods, Stringer, Evans & Chater (2015a).