BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Puccinia phragmitis (Schumach.) Körn., 1876 (a rust fungus)

Notes (MWS)

A rust which forms aecia on bright red or purple spots on *Rumex* and *Rheum* and uredinia and telia on *Phragmites*.

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon	Summary	Date	Vice-county	Country
Puccinia phragmitis	Aecia (I)	12 May 2004	W. Glos	England	3
Puccinia phragmitis	Aecia (I)	7 May 2000	N. Wilts	England		9	6

Suggested Literature

General Works

Kurose, D., Renals, T., Shaw, R., Furuya, N., Takagi, M. & Evans, H., 2006

Fallopia japonica, an increasingly intractable weed problem in the UK: Can fungi help cut through this Gordian knot?

Puccinia phragmitis 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 phragmitis is associated with:

aecium	Fallopia japonica - Japanese Knotweed (Polygonaceae)	hypophyllous aecium parasitises live leaf	Kurose, D., Renals, T., Shaw, R., Furuya, N., Takagi, M. & Evans, H., 2006 [in Japan]
aecium	Rheum x hybridum (R. palmatum x rhaponticum) - Rhubarb (Polygonaceae)	clustered aecium causes spots on live leaf	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes reddish-purple spots]
aecium	Rumex acetosa - Common Sorrel (Polygonaceae)	clustered aecium causes spots on live leaf	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes reddish-purple spots]
aecium	Rumex conglomeratus - Clustered Dock (Polygonaceae)	clustered aecium causes spots on live leaf	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes reddish-purple spots]
aecium	Rumex crispus - Curled Dock (Polygonaceae)	clustered aecium causes spots on live leaf	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes reddish-purple spots]
aecium	Rumex hydrolapathum - Water Dock (Polygonaceae)	clustered aecium causes spots on live leaf	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes reddish-purple spots]
aecium	Rumex obtusifolius - Broad-leaved Dock (Polygonaceae)	clustered aecium causes spots on live leaf	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes reddish-purple spots]
pycnium	Rheum x hybridum (R. palmatum x rhaponticum) - Rhubarb (Polygonaceae)	pycnium parasitises live	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
pycnium	Rumex acetosa - Common Sorrel (Polygonaceae)	pycnium parasitises live	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
pycnium	Rumex conglomeratus - Clustered Dock (Polygonaceae)	pycnium parasitises live	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
pycnium	Rumex crispus - Curled Dock (Polygonaceae)	pycnium parasitises live	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
pycnium	Rumex hydrolapathum - Water Dock (Polygonaceae)	pycnium parasitises live	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
pycnium	Rumex obtusifolius - Broad-leaved Dock (Polygonaceae)	pycnium parasitises live	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
telium	Phragmites australis - Common Reed (Poaceae)	telium parasitises live leaf	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
uredium	Phragmites australis - Common Reed (Poaceae)	uredium parasitises live leaf	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

There may be more taxa associated with Puccinia phragmitis listed at higher taxonomic level

Puccinia
(a genus of rust fungi)

Associated with Puccinia phragmitis:

aecium (old)

old aecium is parasitised by effuse colony of Cladobotryum anamorph

Cladosporium aecidiicola - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae)

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Puccinia phragmitis may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

UREDINALES
(rust fungi)

Puccinia
(a genus of rust fungi)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998	Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook
Kurose, D., Renals, T., Shaw, R., Furuya, N., Takagi, M. & Evans, H., 2006	Fallopia japonica, an increasingly intractable weed problem in the UK: Can fungi help cut through this Gordian knot?