Puccinia helvetica Schröter, 1874

on Asperula

gall

no host plant alternation, no aecia. Uredinia small, amphigenous, reddish brown. Telia hypophyllous, dark brown, long covered by the epidermis. Teliospores two-celled, ± oval; wall thin and smooth; pedicel hyaline, short, deciduous.

host plants

Rubiaceae, narrowly monophagous

Asperula taurina & subsp. leucanthera.

synonyms

According to Klenke & Scholler the valid name of this species is P. rubiae Fuckel, 1871. An explanation is not given; the Index Fungorum (2016) considers both names valid.

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 504), Buhr (1964b), Gäumann (1959a), Negrean & Denchev (2000a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a).