Puccinia erikssonii Bubák, 1904

on Melica

gall

host alternation not known. Uredinia epiphyllous, orange yellow, pulverulent; between the spore clavate or capitate, light brown paraphyses; spores 13-16 x 13-20, with ± 6 distributed germination pores. Telia epiphyllous, small, black, soon naked, without paraphyses; spores two-celled, apically with several digitiform processes, on a short, brown, persistent pedicel.

uredinia, telia

Poaceae, monophagous

Melica nutans .

notes

sometimes seen as a form of Puccinia coronata.

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 768), Gäumann (1959a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a).