Puccinia vincae Berkeley, 1836
on Vinca
Vinca major, Zwolle © Arnold Grosscurt
detail
Vinca major, Belgium, prov. Antwerp, Mol © Carina Van Steenwinkel: urediniospore and two teliospores
teliospore
teliospore, surface structure
gall
No host plant alternation, no aecia. All phases are hypophyllous. Uredinia brown; spores pear-shaed with 3 ± equatorial pores. Telia dark brown; spores two-celled. The fungus is systemic; infested shoots remain sterile and stand erect, the leaves are abnormally small.
host plants
Apocynaceae, narrowly monophagous
Vinca difformis, ? herbacea, major.
Not on V. minor.
note
Problematic on Vinca major in gardens.
antagonists
references
Bahçecioğlu & Kabaktepe (2012a), Beenken & Senn-Irlet (2016a), Beltran Tejera (1976a), Brandenburger (1985a: 498), Buhr (1965a), Ellis & Ellis (1997a), Gäumann (1959a), Gjaerum (1982a, 1987a), Gjaerum & Sunding (1986a), González Fragoso (1924a), Henderson (2000a, 2004a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kruse (2019a), Losa España (1944a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Roskam (2009a), Savchenko, Heluta, Wasser & Nevo (2014d), Savchenko, Wasser, Heluta & Nevo (2019a), Spooner & Butterfill (1999a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Vanderweyen & Fraiture (2011a), Wilson & Henderson (1966a), Woods, Stringer, Evans & Chater (2015a).