Puccinia lycoctoni Fuckel, 1875

on Aconitum

gall

No host plant alternation, only telia. Telia mainly hypophyllous, dark brown; spores two-celled, upper cell with a stout papilla, on a short, deciduous pedicel.

hostplants

Ranunculceae, narrowly monophagous

Aconitum lycoctonum & subsp. neapolitanum + vulparia.

notes

the aecia that Gäuman attributed (already with some doubt) to this species almost certainly concern Uromyces lycoctoni (Klenke & Scholler).

references

Blumer (1946a), Brandenburger (1985a), Buhr (1964b), Gäumann (1959a), González Fragoso (1924a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Maire (1943a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Tomasi (2003a).