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on Carex

gall

uredinia light brown, amphigenous, often on small yellowish spots. Urediniospores with (2)3(4) equatorial germination pores. Telia up to 1 mm, blackish brown, amphigenous. Teliospores 2-celled; wall smooth, apically thickened; pedicel persistent, honey-coloured, up to half as long as the spore; the spores do not fall off.

uredinia, telia

Cyperaceae, narrowly monophagous

Carex australpina, brachystachys, capillaris, ferruginea, frigida, pallescens, parviflora.

synonyms

Puccinia urticae-austroalpinae Mayor, 1953; P. urticae-ferrugineae Gäumann, 1943.

See note under P. urticata.

references

Blumer (1946a), Brandenburger (1985a), Buhr (1965a), Gäumann (1959a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a).