Puccinia sii-falcariae (Persoon) Schröter, 1887

on Falcaria

Falcaria vulgaris, Hungary, Budapest, 20.iv.2018 © László Érse

underside of a leaf, with young aecia

10.v.2019, underside of a leaf, with opened aecia

aecia

transverse section

gall

No host plant alternation, no uredinia. The fungus is systemic, the plant remains sterile, the leaves look unhealthy, the aecia and telia are distributed all over the leaves. Aecia numerous, amphigenous, cupulate, peridium whitish. Telia amhpigenous, scarce, blackish brown, tiny. Teliospores two-celled, short-elliptic, hardly constricted; wall smooth, thin; pedicel hyaline, thin, deciduous.

host plants

Apiaceae, monophagous

Falcaria vulgaris.

synonyms

Puccinia falcariae Fuckel, 1870

references

Bahçecioğlu & Kabaktepe (2012a), Bahçecioğlu, Kabaktepe & Yildiz (2006a), Brandenburger (1985a: 442), Buhr (1964b), Gäumann (1959a), González Fragoso (1924a), Jage, Kruse, Kummer ao (2013a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kozłowska, Mułenko & Heluta (2015a), Kruse (2019a), Özaslan, Hüseyin & Erdogdu (2014a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Ruszkiewicz-Michalska (2006a), Savchenko, Heluta, Wasser & Nevo (2014d), Savchenko, Wasser, Heluta & Nevo (2019a), Tóth (1994a), Vanderweyen & Fraiture (2011a).