Puccinia dioicae

Puccinia dioicae
	Puccinia dioicae on a leaf of Taraxacum officinale
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Pucciniomycetes
Order:	Pucciniales
Family:	Pucciniaceae
Genus:	Puccinia
Species:	P. dioicae
Binomial name
	Puccinia dioicae; Magnus (1877)
Synonyms
	Aecidium compositarum var. taraxaci (Kunze & J.C. Schmidt) Grev., (1824); Aecidium taraxaci Kunze & J.C. Schmidt, (1817); Dicaeoma dioicae (Magnus) Syd., (1922)

Puccinia dioicae is a plant pathogen that causes rust on goldenrod.

It is common in Iceland, where it infects Taraxacum species and Carex capillaris. Pycniospores and aeciospores are found on Taraxacum sp., and uredospores and teliospores are found on Carex capillaris.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Hallgrímsson, Helgi; Eyjólfsdóttir, Guðríður Gyða (2004). "Íslenskt sveppatal I - smásveppir" [Checklist of Icelandic Fungi I - Microfungi]. Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar [Polygraph of the Institute of Natural Sciences] (in Icelandic). Reykjavík: Náttúrufræðistofnun Íslands [Natural History Institute of Iceland]. ISSN 1027-832X.

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