Austropuccinia Beenken, 2017

Beenken, Ludwig, 2017, Austropuccinia: a new genus name for the myrtle rust Puccinia psidii placed within the redefined family Sphaerophragmiaceae (Pucciniales), Phytotaxa 297 (1), pp. 53-61 : 55

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.297.1.5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13694011

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C387E5-6E1B-7727-42F1-32E741272CB0

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Felipe

scientific name

Austropuccinia Beenken
status

gen. nov.

Austropuccinia Beenken View in CoL View at ENA gen. nov.

MycoBank number MB 819170

Etymology: from Latin auster, -tri = south and the genus name Puccinia , refer to the South American origin of the Puccinia -like genus.

Spermogonia and aecia unknown. Uredia and telia on leaves, buds and fruits of Myrtaceae . Uredinia without sterile elements; urediniospores pedicellate, globose to ovoid, walls hyaline to light-yellow, ornamentation echinulate, sometimes with basal tonsure. Telia without sterile elements, partly developed within uredinia; teliospores puccinioid, with pedicel, two-celled, with a vertical, median septum, ellipsoidal to ovoid, wall smooth, dark yellow to brown, germ-pores one per cell, indistinct, formed by an area of thinned wall. Metabasidia four-celled, producing four basidiospores.

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