Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Puccinia bupleuri

Puccinia bupleuri (Opiz) Rudolphi, 1829

on Bupleurum

Puccinia bupleuri: spores

Bupleurum tenuissimum, from González Fragoso (1924a): urediniospores and teliospores

gall

The fungus is systemic; infected plant parts are etiolated and thickened; the plants do not come into flower. No host plant alternation. Spermogonia hypophyllous, between the aecia. Aecia orange yellow, mainly hypophyllous, dispersed all over the leaf; peridium cupulate, forms a clear seam with outwards curved segments. Uredinia rarely formed; spores with 3-4 germination pores. Teliospores almost globular, 2-celled, wall smooth; pedicel hyaline, short; the spores fall off.

host plants

Apiaceae, monophagous

Bupleurum affine, angulosum, brevicaule, commutatum, croceum, falcatum, fruticescens subsp. spinosum, glumaceum, heldreichi, lancifolium, longifolium, nodiforum, odontites, praealtum, ranunculoides, rotundifolium, stellatum, subovatum, tenuissimum, veronense.

synonyms

Puccinia bupleuri-falcati (de Candolle) Winter, 1881.

references

Bahçecioğlu & Kabaktepe (2012a), Brandenburger (1985a: 433), Buhr (1964b), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), Ellis & Ellis (1997a), Gäumann (1959a), Gjaerum (1986a), González Fragoso (1924a), Henderson (2000a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kruse (2019a), Mayor (1970a), Mercé (1975a), Pellicier (2001a), Petrak (1957a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Preece & Hick (1994a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Savchenko, Heluta, Wasser & Nevo (2014d), Savchenko, Wasser, Heluta & Nevo (2019a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Tóth (1994a), Vanderweyen & Fraiture (2011a), Wilson & Henderson (1966a).

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