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Gymnosporangium confusum Plowr., 1889 (a rust fungus)

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Brand, A.W. & G.M., 2001	Have you seen this? - a Warwickshire oddity
Brand, A.W. & G.M., 2004	The Other Half: The telial stage of the Rust Fungus Gymnosporangium confusum

Gymnosporangium confusum 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)

Gymnosporangium
(a genus of rust fungi)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Gymnosporangium confusum is associated with:

aecium	Crataegus laevigata - Midland Hawthorn (Rosaceae)	mainly hypophyllous aecium causes gall of live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causing thickened brownish spots with yellow margins]
aecium	Crataegus monogyna - Hawthorn (Rosaceae)	mainly hypophyllous aecium causes gall of live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causing thickened brownish spots with yellow margins]
aecium	Cydonia oblonga - Quince (Rosaceae)	mainly hypophyllous aecium causes gall of live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causing thickened brownish spots with yellow margins]
aecium	Mespilus germanica - Medlar (Rosaceae)	mainly hypophyllous aecium causes gall of live leaf	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causing thickened brown spots with yellow margins]
aecium	Pyrus communis sens. lat. - pear (Rosaceae)	mainly hypophyllous aecium causes gall of live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causing thickened brownish spots with yellow margins]
pycnium	Crataegus laevigata - Midland Hawthorn (Rosaceae)	mainly hypophyllous pycnium causes gall of live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causing thickened brownish spots with yellow margins]
pycnium	Crataegus monogyna - Hawthorn (Rosaceae)	mainly hypophyllous pycnium causes gall of live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causing thickened brownish spots with yellow margins]
pycnium	Cydonia oblonga - Quince (Rosaceae)	pycnium causes gall of live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
pycnium	Mespilus germanica - Medlar (Rosaceae)	mainly hypophyllous pycnium causes gall of live leaf	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
pycnium	Pyrus communis sens. lat. - pear (Rosaceae)	pycnium causes gall of live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
telium	Juniperus sabina - a juniper (Cupressaceae)	telium parasitises live branch	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
telium	Juniperus sabina var. prostrata - Prostrate Juniper (Cupressaceae)	telium parasitises live branch	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Gymnosporangium confusum:

aecium

aecium is parasitised by effuse sporodochium of Tuberculina anamorph

Tuberculina maxima - an anamorphic ustilaginomycete (Platygloeaceae)

Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Gymnosporangium confusum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

UREDINALES
(rust fungi)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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