Dianthus sp., Dronten: telia © Arnold Grosscurt

Dianthus deltoides, Belgium, prov. Hainaut, Mouscron © Stéphane Claerebout

teliospores

gall

No hostplant alternation; only hypophyllous telia on galled spots, also on the stems. Telia small, light brown, pulvinate, compact. Spores 10-20 x 28-49 µm, two-celled, on a long (60-90 µm, sometimes 140 µm) persistent pedicel; apical wall of the top cell pointed and clearly thickened.

host plants

Caryophyllaceae, Montiaceae, Molluginaceae; narrowly polyphagous

Agrostemma githago; Arenaria montana, retusa, serpyllifolia, tenuifolia; Cerastium alpinum, arvense, fontanum subsp. vulgare, glomeratum, purpurascens, semidecandrum, velutinum; Dianthus armeria, barbatus, carthusianorum. caryophyllus, chinensis, crinitus, deltoides, lusitanus, plumarius;  Gypsophila elegans, muralis; Holosteum umbellatum; Honckenya peploides; Minuartia hybrida, laricifolia, verna; Moehringia diversifolia, muscosa, tenuifolia, trinervia; Moenchia; Myosoton aquaticum; Petrorhagia; Sagina apetala, decumbens subsp. occidentalis, maritima, nivalis, nodosa, x normaniana, procumbens, saginoides, subulata; Saponaria ocymoides, officinalis, orientalis, persica; Scleranthus; Silene acaulis, alaba, dioica, baccifera, flos-cuculi, italica, noctiflora, rhynchocarpa, viscosa, vulgaris; Spergula arvensis, morisonii, pentandra; Spergularia; Stellaria alsine, graminea, holostea, media, nemorum, pallida, palustris; Vaccaria hispanica.

Moreover Claytonia sibirica (Montiaceae).

synonyms

Puccinia spergulae de Candolle, 1805.

references

Bahçecioğlu & Kabaktepe (2012a), Bahçecioğlu, Kabaktepe & Yildiz (2006a), Blumer (1946a), Brandenburger (1972a, 1985a: 97), Buhr (1964a, 1965a), Dietrich (2013a), Doppelbaur & Doppelbaur (1968a, 1973a), Ellis & Ellis (1997a), Gäumann (1959a), Gjaerum (1982a, 1986a), Gjaerum & Sunding (1986a), González Fragoso (1924a), Henderson (2000a, 2004a), Jage, Kruse, Kummer ao (2013a), Jage, Scholler & Klenke (2010a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Korytnianska & Popova (2012a), Kozłowska, Mułenko & Heluta (2015a), Mułenko & Kozłowska (2010a), Kruse (2014a, 2019a), Losa España (1942a, 1944a), Maier, Wingfield, Mennicken & Wingfield (2007a), Melzer, Pittoni, Poelt & Scheuer (1984a), Negrean (1996b), Negrean & Denchev (2000a), Preece & Hick (1994a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Ruszkiewicz-Michalska (2006a), Schmid-Heckel (1985a), Scholler & Schubert (1993a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Terrier (1961a), Tomasi (2012a, 2014a), Tóth (1994a), Unamuno (1941a), Vanderweyen & Fraiture (2011a), Wilson & Henderson (1966a), Woods, Stringer, Evans & Chater (2015a).