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Trachyspora intrusa (Grev.) Arthur, 1934 (Ladies Mantle Rust)

Date: 25 August 2007
Location: Mid-west Yorkshire, England
Voucher: 25/08/2007[K]
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State: Telia (III)
Record Summary: Sori on underside of leaves of lady's mantle
Associated organism: on underside live leaf of Alchemilla
Identification Notes: Sori hypophyllous on leaves, containing angular uredospores and rough teliospores.

It's very difficult to interpret the spores: there are a mixture of types:





Pale, thick-walled echinulate cells (peridium?)
More or less smooth, brown, rounded-polygonal pedicellate cells (uredospores?)
Roundish, warty, brown cells with hyaline pedicel with a short apical cell (teliospores)


Images etc

magnified photograph Sori - enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Sori - enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Sori - enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Sori - enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
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magnified photograph Sori - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
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microscope photograph Teliospore - magnified 496 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Teliospores and uredospores - magnified 500 by 375 pixels
microscope photograph Uredospore - magnified 500 by 356 pixels
microscope photograph Uredospores - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Uredospores - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Uredospores - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Uredospores - magnified 500 by 333 pixels

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