Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Puccinia alternans

Puccinia alternans Arthur, 1910

on Thalictrum

gall

spermogonia honey-coloured, mostly epiphyllous. Aecia golden yellow, cupulate, mostly hypophyllous, on yellowish-brown discoloured spots.

spermogonia, aecia

Rancunlaceae, monophagous

Thalictrum alpinum, aquilegiifolium, calabricum. delavayi, flavum, foetidum, isopyroides, lucidum, minus & subsp. elatum + majus, petaloideum, simplex & subsp. galioides, tuberosum.


on Bromus s.l.

gall

Uredinia mostly epiphyllous, rust brown, dispersed, soon naked, pulverulent. Urediniospores spinulose, with 4-6 dispersed, well visible germination pores. Telia hypophyllous, covered by the epidermis, dark brown. Only in the larger telia brown paraphyses. Teliospores 12-14 x 42-53 µm, 2-celled, clavate, hardly constricted; wall thin, except at the tip, smooth. Pedicel short, persistent, brown.

uredinia, telia

Poaceae, narrowly oligophagous

Anisantha madritensis, rubens, sterilis, tectorum; Bromopsis benekenii, cappadocica, inermis, pannonica, ramosa;
Bromus arvensis, ciliatus, commutatus, grossus, hordeaceus, japonicus, lanceolatus, pectinatus, racemosus, secalinus;
Ceratochloa carinta, cathartica, sitchensis.

synonyms

many authors, including Termorshuizen & Swertz consider this species conspecific with P. recondita.

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 751), Buhr (1965a), Gäumann (1959a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Tomasi (2014a).

Last modified 7.xii.2022