Chrysomyxa pyrolata (Körn.) G. Winter
(Wintergreen Rust)

Interactions where Chrysomyxa pyrolata is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
telium		telium parasitises live			Pyrola minor	Common Wintergreen	Ericales: Ericaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Coleosporiaceae/Chrysomyxa pyrolata/	Chrysomyxa pyrolata	wintergreen rust				telium	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Pyrola minor/	Pyrola minor	common wintergreen		live			Minor
uredium (hypophyllous, uniformly covering surface)		hypophyllous, uniformly covering surface uredium parasitises live leaf			Pyrola minor	Common Wintergreen	Ericales: Ericaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Coleosporiaceae/Chrysomyxa pyrolata/	Chrysomyxa pyrolata	wintergreen rust		hypophyllous, uniformly covering surface		uredium	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Pyrola minor/	Pyrola minor	common wintergreen		live	leaf
telium		telium parasitises live			Pyrola rotundifolia	Round-leaved Wintergreen	Ericales: Ericaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Coleosporiaceae/Chrysomyxa pyrolata/	Chrysomyxa pyrolata	wintergreen rust				telium	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Pyrola rotundifolia/	Pyrola rotundifolia	round-leaved wintergreen		live			Minor
uredium (hypophyllous, uniformly covering surface)		hypophyllous, uniformly covering surface uredium parasitises live leaf			Pyrola rotundifolia	Round-leaved Wintergreen	Ericales: Ericaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Coleosporiaceae/Chrysomyxa pyrolata/	Chrysomyxa pyrolata	wintergreen rust		hypophyllous, uniformly covering surface		uredium	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Pyrola rotundifolia/	Pyrola rotundifolia	round-leaved wintergreen		live	leaf
telium		telium parasitises live			Pyrola rotundifolia ssp maritima	Round-leaved Wintergreen - Sand Dune Subspecies	Ericales: Ericaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Coleosporiaceae/Chrysomyxa pyrolata/	Chrysomyxa pyrolata	wintergreen rust				telium	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Pyrola rotundifolia subsp. maritima/	Pyrola rotundifolia subsp. maritima	round-leaved wintergreen - sand dune subspecies		live
uredium (hypophyllous, uniformly covering surface)		hypophyllous, uniformly covering surface uredium parasitises live leaf			Pyrola rotundifolia ssp maritima	Round-leaved Wintergreen - Sand Dune Subspecies	Ericales: Ericaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Coleosporiaceae/Chrysomyxa pyrolata/	Chrysomyxa pyrolata	wintergreen rust		hypophyllous, uniformly covering surface		uredium	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Pyrola rotundifolia subsp. maritima/	Pyrola rotundifolia subsp. maritima	round-leaved wintergreen - sand dune subspecies		live	leaf
aecium		aecium parasitises cone scale			Picea abies	Norway Spruce, Christmas Tree	Pinales: Pinaceae	British Rust Fungi, Wilson, M., & Henderson, D., 1966	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Coleosporiaceae/Chrysomyxa pyrolata/	Chrysomyxa pyrolata	wintergreen rust				aecium	Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Pinopsida/Pinales/Pinaceae/Picea abies/	Picea abies	Norway spruce, Christmas tree			cone scale
aecium		aecium parasitises cone scale			Picea glauca	White Spruce	Pinales: Pinaceae	British Rust Fungi, Wilson, M., & Henderson, D., 1966	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Coleosporiaceae/Chrysomyxa pyrolata/	Chrysomyxa pyrolata	wintergreen rust				aecium	Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Pinopsida/Pinales/Pinaceae/Picea glauca/	Picea glauca	white spruce			cone scale

Interactions where Chrysomyxa pyrolata is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
uredium		uredium is parasitised by colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph			Ramularia coleosporii	an anamorphic fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Ramularia coleosporii/	Ramularia coleosporii	an anamorphic fungus			colony	Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph	Fungus / parasite			/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Coleosporiaceae/Chrysomyxa pyrolata/	Chrysomyxa pyrolata	wintergreen rust			uredium					colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph parasitises uredium

Author & Year	Title	Source
Braun, U., 1998	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II	Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes, 2, 493pp, IHW-Verlag
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota	517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Wilson, M., & Henderson, D., 1966	British Rust Fungi	384pp, Cambridge University Press

Chrysomyxa pyrolata (Wintergreen Rust) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Chrysomyxa pyrolata (Wintergreen Rust) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Chrysomyxa
(a genus of rust fungi)

PUCCINIALES
(rust fungi)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

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

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Chrysomyxa pyrolata (Wintergreen Rust)
Genus	Chrysomyxa (a genus of rust fungi)
Family	COLEOSPORIACEAE (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)

Chrysomyxa pyrolata 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.)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Chrysomyxa pyrolata (Wintergreen Rust)

Chrysomyxa pyrolata (Wintergreen Rust) may 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))

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Chrysomyxa pyrolata (Wintergreen Rust):

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))

BioImages

BioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 12 images of Chrysomyxa pyrolata (Wintergreen Rust)

Rare

EN/B

Early records were from East Gloucestershire, Formby in South Lancashire and various parts of Scotland. It was found in South Wiltshire (Fonthill Terraces) in the 1970’s, but apparently hasn’t been seen since 1975. All our records are from Pyrola spp. The aecia (on Picea cone scales) are unknown in this country although can cause infections of epidemic proportion in Norway, so presumably could cope with our climate.

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