Saxifraga granulata, England, Vice County: Derby, VC57 © Malcolm Storey, BioImages

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No host plant alternation, only brown, pulverulent telia. Teliospores 12-22 x 20-41 µm, with fine, longitudinal lines, sometimes hardly perceptible (like on the picture); pedicel short, hyaline deciduous.

host plants

Saxifragaceae, oligophagous

Saxifraga androsacea, aphylla, bourgaeana, bulbifera, cespitosa, carpatica, cernua, exarata, fragosoi, granulata, hieraciifolia, hypnoides, longifolia, marginata, moschata, nelsoniana, nivalis, pedemontana, rivularis, rotundifolia, seguieri, sibirica, stellaris & subsp. engleri, tenuis, umbrosa, wahlenbergii.

Termorshuizen & Swertz add to this Heuchera sanguinea.

synonyms

Puccinia curtipes: Sydow, 1904, Buhr 1965a, nec Howe, 1874

references

Bahçecioğlu & Kabaktepe (2012a), Brandenburger (1985a: 217), Blumer (1946a), Buhr (1965a), Ellis & Ellis (1997a), Gäumann (1959a), González Fragoso (1924a), Hagen (1941a), Henderson (2000a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Maier, Wingfield, Mennicken & Wingfield (2007a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Schmid-Heckel (1985a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Unamuno (1941b), Vanderweyen & Fraiture (2011a), Wilson & Henderson (1966a), Woods, Stringer, Evans & Chater (2015a).