Pulmonaria longifolia, from González Fragoso (1924a): section through a telium and some teliospores

gall

no host plant alternation, only telia. These hypophyllous, also on the stem, brownish black, fusing up to 8mm large sori, divided into compartments by bundles of brown paraphyses. Teliosporen 2-celled, ob-clavate, 15-25 x 40-60 µm; wall smooth,of even thickness; pedicel short.

host plants

Boraginaceae, oligophagous

Aegonychon purpurocaeruleum; Echium vulgare; Lithodora fruticosum; Pulmonaria longifolia, officinalis.

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 519), Gäumann (1959a), González Fragoso (1924a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a).