Puccinia festucae Plowright, 1893
on Lonicera
Lonicera periclymenum, Belgium, prov. Namur, Selles © Olivier Roberfroid; aecia
Lonicera periclymenum, Belgium, prov. Namur, Étang de Virelles; © Stéphane Claerebout; spermogonia
Lonicera periclymenum, Texel de Koog; spermogonia
same leaf, underside; aecia
the entire upperside of the gall is covered by spermogonia, oozing spermatia
spermatia
the hypophyllous aecia are almost snowed under a mass of Mycodiplosis (gall midges) larvae
aeciospores
spermogonia, aecia
Caprifoliaceae, monophagous
Lonicera alpigena, caerulea, caprifolium, caucasica, etrusca, flava, nigra, periclymenum & subsp. hispanica, xylosteum.
on Festuca s.l.
Festuca rubra, fron González Fragoso (1924a): urediniospores
teliosporen
gall
uredinia,small, yellow, epiphyllous; spores with 5-8 germination pores. Telia hypophyllous, blackish brown, without paraphyses; spores two-celled, apically with several of digitiform processes, on a persistent, 15-25 µm long pedicel.
uredinia, telia
Poaceae, narrowly oligophagous
Festuca amethystina, arenaria, cinerea, glauca, heterophylla, lemanii, longifolia, nigrescens, ovina, rubra, stricta subsp. trachyphylla, varia, violacea; Schedonorus giganteus.
notes
The teliospores remind those of Puccinia coronata, but differ, among other things, by the long pedicels.
references
Bahçecioğlu & Kabaktepe (2012a), Blumer (1946a), Brandenburger (1985a: 588, 760), Buhr (1964b), Ellis & Ellis (1997a), Gäumann (1959a), González Fragoso (1924a), Gubleifsson (1981a), Henderson (2000a, 2004a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Ludwig (1974a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Roskam (2009a), Schmid-Heckel (1985a), Selçuk & Hüseyin (2000a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Tomasi (2003a, 2012a), Vanderweyen & Fraiture (2011a), Wilson & Henderson (1966a), Woods, Stringer, Evans & Chater (2015a).