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Phragmidium violaceum (Schultz) G. Winter, 1880 (Violet Bramble Rust, Bramble Leaf Rust)

Date: 19 April 2007
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 19/04/2007[D]
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State: Aecia (I)
Record Summary: Aecia on Bramble stem
Associated organism: on live stem of Rubus furticosus
Identification Notes: Aecia: golden yellow, subcuticular, becoming erumpent through a single, or two parallel, cracks, margin purple.

Aeciospores: polygonal-spherical to ovoid, 26-30/26µm, wall finely echinulate.

Peridial cells: occasional, hyaline, closely echinulate, ovoid.

Recollection: 5 May 07: over-wintered leaves with hypophyllous aecia.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Aecia on stem - close-up - enlarged 500 by 290 pixels
naked eye photograph Aecia on stem - close-up - enlarged 500 by 346 pixels
magnified photograph Aecia on stem - highly enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Aecium on stem - highly enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Aecium on stem - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
naked eye photograph Over-wintered leaf - upperside (aecia beneath) Good 500 by 324 pixels
naked eye photograph Over-wintered leaf - upperside and underside superimposed Good 500 by 324 pixels
naked eye photograph Over-wintered leaf - underside with aecia 500 by 303 pixels
microscope photograph Aeciospores from leaf - magnified 500 by 432 pixels
microscope photograph Aeciospores from stem - profile view - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Aeciospores from stem - profile view - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Aeciospores from stem - profile view - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Aeciospores from stem - profile view - magnified 500 by 364 pixels
microscope photograph Aeciospores from stem - surface view - magnified 500 by 436 pixels
microscope photograph Peridial cells - magnified 39 Kb 447 by 321 pixels

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