Puccinia asteris-alpini Sydow & Sydow, 1902

on Aster

gall

No host plant alternation; only telia. Telia hypophyllous, on 1-2 mm large yellowed spots, black, long covered by the epidermis, compact. Spores two-celled; wall smooth, thin but apically strongly thickened; pedicel persistent.

host plants

Asteraceae, narrowly monophagous

Aster alpinus.

synonyms

Termorshuizen & Swertz consider this species conspecific with P. cnici-oleracei.

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 610), Buhr (1964b), Gäumann (1959a), González Fragoso (1924a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a).