Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Puccinia coronata

Puccinia coronata Corda, 1837

barley crown rust

on Frangula, Rhamnus

Puccinia coronata: aecia on Rhamnus cathartica

Rhamnus cathartica, Hungary, Kimle, 2.vi.2016 © László Érsek

Puccinia coronata: aecia on Rhamnus cathartica

same leaf, underside

Puccinia coronata: aecia on Rhamnus cathartica

aecia

Puccinia coronata: aecia on Rhamnus cathartica

detail

Puccinia coronata: aecium on Rhamnus cathartica

aecium with peridium

Puccinia coronata: spermonogia on Rhamnus catharticus leaf

Rhamnus catharticus, Amstelveen, de Braak: leaf with spermogonia

Puccinia coronata: spermogonia

detail

Puccinia coronata: spermogonia

the individual spermogonia

Puccinia coronata galls

Rhamnus catharticus, Enter © Arnold Grosscurt: aecia

Puccinia coronata gall

Frangula alnus, Belgium, prov. Namur, Winenne, Les Hamions: aecia; det. Arthur Vanderweyen © Jean-Yves Baugnée: aecia

Puccinia coronata gall

detail

gall

spermogonia

spermogonia, aecia

Rhamnaceae, oligophagous

Frangula azorica; Frangula alnus; Rhamnus alaternus, alpina, cathartica, crenulata, lycioides subsp. graeca, pumila, saxatilis.


on Poaceae

Puccinia coronata: uredinia on Avena sativa

Avena sativa, Hungary, Halászi, 23.vi.2018 © László Érsek

Puccinia coronata: uredinia on Avena sativa

leaf with uredinia

Puccinia coronata: uredinia on Avena sativa

detail

Puccinia coronata: urediniosopres

urediniospores

Puccinia coronata uredinia

Avena sp. uredinia, Spain, Andalusia, Frigiliana © Arnold Grosscurt

Puccinia coronata: uredinia on Phalaris arundinacea

Phalaris arundinacea, Amsterdam-West, Lange Bretten: uredinia

Puccinia coronata: uredinium on Phalaris arundinacea

a single uredinium

Puccinia coronata: urediniosporen

urediniospores: finely spinulose, pores not distinguishable

Puccinia coronata: telia on Phalaris arundinacea

Phalaris arundinacea, Castricum: telia

Puccinia coronata: teliospores

teliospores

detail

gall

uredinia mostly epiphyllous, orange, up to 0.5 mm, along their margin a row of colourless, rather thin-walled paraphyses that apically are not clavate; urediniospores with 6-8 pores. Telia up to 1 mm, black, hypophyllous, long covered by the epidermis, surrounded by a palissade of black paraphyses. Teliospores “crowned”, on a short pedicel.

uredinia, telia

Poaceae, broadly oligophagous

Achnatherum calamagrostis; Agropyron cristatum; Agrostis canina, capillaris, castellana, gigantea, schraderiana, stolonifera; Alopecurus aequalis, geniculatus, pratensis, uitriculatus; Ammocalamagrostis baltica; Ammophila arenaria; Arrhenatherum elatius & subsp. bulbosum; Anisantha diandra; Anthoxanthum odoratum; Apera spica-venti; Avena barbata, fatua & subsp. meridionalis, sativa, sterilis, strigosa; Avenella flexuosa; Avenula pubescens; Beckmannia eruciformis, syzigachne; Bothriochloa ischaemum; Brachypodium pinnatum, rupestre, sylvaticum; Briza media, minor; Bromopsis benekenii, erecta, inermis, ramosa, triniana; Bromus hordeaceus, secalinus; Calamagrostis arundinacea, canescens, epigeios, pseudophragmites, varia, villosa; Catabrosa aquatica; Corynephorus canescens; Cynodon dactylon; Cynosurus cristatus, echinatus; Dactylis glomerata; Deschampsia cespitosa; Echinaria capitata; Elytrigia repens; Festuca ovina, rubra, varia; x Festulolium braunii, loliaceum; Glyceria maxima; Helictochloa pratensis; Helictotrichon parlatorii; Hierochloe australis, odorata; Holcus lanatus, mollis; Hordelymus europaeus; Hordeum murinum; Koeleria mcrantha, pyramidata, vallesiana; Lamarckia aurea; Leymus arenarius; Lolium multiflorum, perenne, remotum; Melica nutans; Milium effusum; Molinia caerulea; Parapholis filiformis; Phalaris aquatica, arundinacea, caerulescens, minor; Phalaroides arundinacea; Phleum hirsutum, pratense; Phragmites australis; Poa nemoralis, pratensis; Polypogon fugax, monspeliensis, viridis; Puccinellia distans; Schedonorus arundinaeus, giganteus, pratensis; Scolochloa; Secale cereale; Sesleria caerulea, sadlerana; Setaria; Stipa pulcherrima; Trisetum flavescens; Triticum aestivum; Vulpia.

synonyms

Aecidium rhamni Gmelin, 1792; ? Ae. rhamni-infectoriae Unamuno, 1934; Puccinia alpinae-coronata Mühlethaler, 1911L P. coronata var. avenae Fraser & Ledingham, 1933; P. coronata var. himalensis Barclay, 1891; P. coronifera Klebahn, 1894; P. gibberosa Lagerheim, 1888; P. lolii Nielsen, 1975; P. pumilae-coronatae, Paul, 1929.

notes

Liu & Hamilton, using a combination of molecular and morphological analysis, have shown that P. coronata in fact is a complex of eight species. Although the reality of these species is indisputable, it is highly probable that further research will bring even more species to the fore. Moreover, the host plant spectre and geographical distribution of the newly distinguished species are only incompletely known. Therefore in this site for the time being coronata still is treated as a normal species.

references

Bahçecioğlu & Kabaktepe (2012a), Bellmann (2012a), Beltran Tejera (1976a), Blumer (1946a), Brandenburger (1972a, 1985a: 373, 768, 776, 807, 810), Buhr (1965a), Chinery (2011a), Coulianos & Holmåsen (1991a), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), Deckert & Deckert (2016a), Dietrich (2013a), Doppelbaur & Doppelbaur (1968a, 1973a), Ellis & Ellis (1997a), Gäumann (1959a), Gjaerum (1970a, 1982a, 1986a, 1987a), Gjaerum & Dennis (1976a), Gjaerum & Sunding (1986a), Gönczö & Révay (1981a), González Fragoso (1922a, 1924a), Henderson (2000a, 2004a), Heluta, Hayova, Tykhonenko ao (2010a), Jage, Klenke, Kruse ao (2016a), Jage, Kruse, Kummer ao (2013a), Jage, Scholler & Klenke (2010a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kolmer (2013a), Koops (2013a), Korytnianska & Popova (2012a), Kozłowska, Mułenko & Heluta (2015a), Kruse (2014a, 2019a), Kruse & Jage (2014a), Kruse, Thiel, Beenken ao (2018d), Liu & Hamilton (2010a, 2013a), Liu, Szabob, Hambleton, Anikster & Kolmer (2013a), Losa España (1942a), Ludwig (1974a), Maier, Begerow, Weiß & Oberwinkler (2003a), Maier, Wingfield, Mennicken & Wingfield (2007a), Marková & Urban (1988a), Mayor (1967a), Melgarejo Nárdiz, García-Jiménez, Jordá Gutiérrez ao (2010a), Mułenko, Sałata & Wołczańska (1995a), Negrean (1996b, 1997a), Özaslan, Hüseyin & Erdogdu (2014a), Pellicier (2001a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Preece & Hick (1994a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Riegler-Hager (2000a, 2014a), Roskam (2009a), Ruszkiewicz-Michalska (2006a), Saba & Khalid (2013a), Sadravi, Ono, Pei & Rahnama (2007a), Savchenko, Heluta, Wasser & Nevo (2014d), Savchenko, Wasser, Heluta & Nevo (2019a), Scheuer & Bechter (2012a), Schmid-Heckel (1985a), Scholler & Schubert (1993a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Tomasi (2003a, 2012a, 2014a), Tóth (1994a), Unamuno (1941a, 1942a), Vanderweyen & Fraiture (2011a), Wilson & Henderson (1966a), Woods, Stringer, Evans & Chater (2015a).

Last modified 13.xii.2022