Puccinia afra Winter, 1887

on Lycium

gall

No host plant alternation. Aecia pale orange, in groups mainly on the disfigured perianth and pedicels, peridium almost erect. Uredinia and telia on the leaves, amphigenous. Teliospores 2-celled, gold coloured.

host plants

Solanaceae, monophagous

Lycium barbarum, europaeum.

notes

African species; in Europe only the aecia have been found.

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 550), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), González Fragoso (1924a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Mennicken, Maier & Oberwinkler (2005a).