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Melampsorella symphyti Bubák, 1903 (a rust fungus)

Suggested Literature

Melampsorella symphyti may 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

Melampsorella symphyti is associated with:

telium	Symphytum asperum - Rough Comfrey (Boraginaceae)	hypophyllous telium infects and damages live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
telium	Symphytum asperum x officinale (S. x uplandicum) - Russian Comfrey (Boraginaceae)	hypophyllous telium infects and damages live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
telium	Symphytum officinale - Common Comfrey (Boraginaceae)	hypophyllous telium infects and damages live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [infected leaves usually small and pale]
telium	Symphytum tuberosum - Tuberous Comfrey (Boraginaceae)	hypophyllous telium infects and damages live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
uredium	Symphytum asperum - Rough Comfrey (Boraginaceae)	hypophyllous, often covering whole leaf uredium infects and damages live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
uredium	Symphytum asperum x officinale (S. x uplandicum) - Russian Comfrey (Boraginaceae)	hypophyllous, often covering whole leaf uredium infects and damages live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
uredium	Symphytum officinale - Common Comfrey (Boraginaceae)	hypophyllous, often covering whole leaf uredium infects and damages live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [infected leaves usually small and pale]
uredium	Symphytum tuberosum - Tuberous Comfrey (Boraginaceae)	hypophyllous, often covering whole leaf uredium infects and damages live leaf	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Associated with Melampsorella symphyti:

Melampsorella symphyti may be associated with 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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