Puccinia ammophilae Guyot, 1932

on Ammophila

gall

No host plant alternation (or not known). Uredinia strictly hypophyllous, orange, soon naked, in long stripes covering the entire lamina; no paraphyses. Urediniospores with 6-8 distributed germination pores. Telia small, distributed, inconspicuous. Teliosporen 2-celled, hardly constricted, clavate; wall smooth, thin except an apical thickening; pedicel generally short.

host plants

Poaceae, monophagous

Ammophila arenaria.

synonyms

among others Termorshuizen & Swertz, and also the Index Fungorum (2016), consider ammophilae conspecific with Puccinia elymi.

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 803), Gäumann (1959a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a).