Puccinia veratri Duby, 1830
on Epilobium
gall
spermogonia and aecia hypophyllous; spermogonia between the aecia. Aecia cupulate; spores yellowish. The mycelium that forms the aecia is systemic, but does not cause obvious malformations.
spermogonia, aecia
Onagraceae, monophagous
Epilobium alpeste, anagallidifolium, ciliatum subsp. glandulosum, montanum, roseum & subsp. subsessile.
on Veratrum
Veratrum album, from González Fragoso (1924a): teliospores (also two unicellular ones) and an urediniospore
gall
uredinia and telia brown, hypophyllous, scattered, soon naked. Uredinia reddish brown, 17-23 x 20-18 µm, spinulose, with 1 or 2 spores. Teliospores mostly two-celled, somewhat constricted, verruculose. Pedicel short, hyaline, easily deciduous.
uredinia, telia
Melianthaceae, monophagous
Veratrum album, lobelianum.
notes
Gäumann stipulates 1 pore, but of the three spores depicted by him, one has 2 pores.
references
Brandenburger (1985a: 413, 703), Buhr (1964b), Gäumann (1959a), González Fragoso (1924a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Mayor (1971a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Schmid-Heckel (1985a).