BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Puccinia distincta McAlpine, 1896 (a rust fungus)
| Notes (MWS) | Originally from Australia and New Zealand, this rust is a recent colonist in the British Isles. The spores bodies of the rust forms concentric rings on the leaves of *Bellis perennis* - the aecia appearing as orange cluster cups and the telia as black raised blisters. It can be recognised at a distance as the infected leaves are paler, slightly distorted and held more erect. This rust attacks both the wild and cultivated forms of the plant. It was first recorded about 1996. By 1998 it was ubiquitous and abundant throughout Britain wherever the host plant is found. |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
 |
 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puccinia distincta | Aecia (I) | 30 April 2000 | Surrey | England | 4 | 10 | 5 |
| Puccinia distincta | Telia (III) | 18 June 1997 | Berks | England | 4 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Weber, Webster et al, 1998 | Mycologist: 12 part 2 |
Puccinia distincta may also be covered by literature listed under:
|
BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers) |
UREDINIOMYCETES (urediniomycete fungi) |
UREDINALES (rust fungi) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Puccinia distincta is associated with:
 |
aecium | Bellis perennis - Daisy (Asteraceae) | aecium parasitises live leaf | Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [and cultivars] | |
|
pycnium | Bellis perennis - Daisy (Asteraceae) | pycnium parasitises live leaf | Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [and cultivars] | |
|
telium | Bellis perennis - Daisy (Asteraceae) | telium parasitises live leaf | Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [and cultivars] |
There may be more taxa associated with Puccinia distincta listed at higher taxonomic level
|
Puccinia (a genus of rust fungi) |
Associated with Puccinia distincta:
Puccinia distincta may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
|
MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
UREDINALES (rust fungi) |
Puccinia (a genus of rust fungi) |
References
| Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota |
