Puccinia oxyriae Fuckel
(Mountain Sorrel Rust)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Puccinia oxyriae (Mountain Sorrel Rust)
Genus	Puccinia (a genus of rust fungi)
Family	PUCCINIACEAE (a family of rust fungi)
Order	PUCCINIALES (rust fungi)
Class	PUCCINIOMYCETES (rust fungi etc)
Subphylum	PUCCINIOMYCOTINA (rust fungi etc)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Puccinia oxyriae is also a member of:
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Pucciniomycetes)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Evans, D.	2014	Hunting rare rusts in NW Wales	Field Mycology Vol 15 (2): 57-61.

Puccinia oxyriae (Mountain Sorrel Rust) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

PUCCINIALES
(rust fungi)

PUCCINIOMYCETES
(rust fungi etc)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Puccinia oxyriae (Mountain Sorrel Rust)

BioInfo

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Puccinia oxyriae (Mountain Sorrel Rust)

Rare

EX 1941

Although variously described as rare or extinct, there are specimens in RBG(E) and it’s apparently found wherever the host grows.

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