BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Uromyces ficariae (Schumach.) Lév., 1849 (Bitter Chocolate Rust, Celandine Rust)

Date: 11 April 2007
Location: Berks, England
State: Telia (III)
Record Summary: Amphigenous on lamina and petioles
Identification Notes: Dark brown telia amphigenous on lamina (usually near top of petiole) and on petioles (usually near top).

Teliospores: brown, smooth, with a single apical pore, ovoid to irregular, with deciduous pedicel, apex with hyaline papilla. Teliospores intermixed with the occasional uredospore.

Uredospores: warty, yellow, subglobose, 23-26µm.

Images etc

magnified photograph Telium - enlarged 500 by 442 pixels
magnified photograph Telium - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Telium - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Teliospores (and a ?uredospore) - magnified 500 by 346 pixels
microscope photograph Teliospores (and a couple of uredospores) - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Teliospores - magnified 500 by 403 pixels
microscope photograph Teliospores - magnified 500 by 414 pixels
microscope photograph Teliospores - magnified 500 by 402 pixels
microscope photograph Uredospore and teliospore - magnified 38 Kb 330 by 427 pixels

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