Silene nutans, from González-Fragoso (1925a): teliospores

Silene nutans, Renesse, Zouten Haard, 11.ix.2021 © Kees van Oorde: leaf with uredinia (reddish brown, powdery) and telia (blackish brown, shining)

urediniosporen (scale unit 2.5 µm)

2.i.2021, leaf with telia

teliospores

gall

No host plant alternation. Spermogonia honey coloured, conical. Aecia in circles on discoloured spots; peridium white, spores orange, practically smooth. Uredinia and telia amphigenous, on discoloured spots. Uredinia cinnamon coloured, spores finely verrucose. Telia black; spores one-celled, wall smooth, apical part strongly thickened; on long, persistent pedicel.

hostplants

Caryophyllaceae, broadly monophagous

Silene armeria, chlorantha, foliosa, fortunei, integripetala, italica, jeniseensis, latifolia. laxa, legionensis, longicilia, marschalii, multiflora, nemoralis, niceensis, niederi, nutans & subsp. insubrica, otites, rupestris, vulgaris, viridiflora.

synonyms

Uromyces silenes (Schlechtendal) Fuckel, 1870.

notes

often difficult to distinguish from Puccinia behenis (Poelt & Zwetko, 1997a).

references

Bahçecioğlu & Kabaktepe (2012a), Blumer (1946a), Brandenburger (1985a: 112), Buhr (1964b), Gäumann (1959a), Ellis & Ellis (1997a: 423), González-Fragoso (1925a), Henderson (2000a, 2004a), Klenke & Scholler (2015a), Kozłowska, Mułenko & Heluta (2015a), Losa España (1942a), Poelt & Zwetko (1997a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Termorshuizen & Swertz (2011a), Tomasi (2014a), Tóth (1994a), Wilson & Henderson (1966a), Woods, Stringer, Evans & Chater (2015a).