Puccinia thesii (Desvaux) Chaillet, 1830
on Thesium
Thesium humifusum, Engeland, Vice County: South Wiltshire, VC8: aecia © Malcolm Storey, BioImages
fresh aecia (the peridia soon break away and disappear)
Thesium humifusum, uit González Fragoso (1924a): teliospores
gall
No host plant alternation. Spermogonia, aecia, uredinia, and telia amphigenous. Aecia cupulate. Uredinia brown; spores with 4-5 dispersed pores. Telia black, compact, mainly on the stems; spores two-celled, smooth; pedicel persistent, yellowish, up to 3 x the length of the spore.
host plants
Santalaceae, monophagous
Thesium alpinum, “arvense”, compressum, divaricatum, dollineri subsp. simplex, ebracteatum, humifusum, humile, kernerianum, linophyllon & subsp. montanum, macranthum, longifolium, procumbens, pyrenaicum, ramosum, stelleroides, tauricolum.
references
Bahçecioğlu & Kabaktepe (2012a), Brandenburger (1985a: 80), Buhr (1965a), Ellis & Ellis (1997a), Gäumann (1959a), González Fragoso (1924a), Heluta, Hayova, Tykhonenko ao (2010a), Henderson (2000a), Jage, Scholler & Klenke (2010a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kruse, Thiel, Choi, ao (2016a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Savchenko, Heluta, Wasser & Nevo (2014d), Savchenko, Wasser, Heluta & Nevo (2019a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Tóth (1994a), Unamuno (1941a), Vanderweyen & Fraiture (2011a), Wilson & Henderson (1966a).