Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex G. Yamada
(Japanese Pear Rust)

Interactions where Gymnosporangium asiaticum 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
aecium (mostly hypophyllous)		mostly hypophyllous aecium causes gall of live leaf			Chaenomeles	Japanese quinces	Rosales: Rosaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust		mostly hypophyllous		aecium	Foodplant / gall		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Chaenomeles/	Chaenomeles	Japanese quinces		live	leaf
pycnium (epiphyllous)		epiphyllous pycnium parasitises live leaf			Chaenomeles	Japanese quinces	Rosales: Rosaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust		epiphyllous		pycnium	Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Chaenomeles/	Chaenomeles	Japanese quinces		live	leaf
aecium (mostly hypophyllous)		mostly hypophyllous aecium causes gall of live leaf			Crataegus	hawthorns	Rosales: Rosaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust		mostly hypophyllous		aecium	Foodplant / gall		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Crataegus/	Crataegus	hawthorns	?	live	leaf
pycnium (epiphyllous)		epiphyllous pycnium parasitises live leaf			Crataegus	hawthorns	Rosales: Rosaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust		epiphyllous		pycnium	Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Crataegus/	Crataegus	hawthorns	?	live	leaf
aecium (mostly hypophyllous)		mostly hypophyllous aecium causes gall of live leaf			Cydonia oblonga	Quince	Rosales: Rosaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust		mostly hypophyllous		aecium	Foodplant / gall		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Cydonia oblonga/	Cydonia oblonga	quince		live	leaf
pycnium (epiphyllous)		epiphyllous pycnium parasitises live leaf			Cydonia oblonga	Quince	Rosales: Rosaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust		epiphyllous		pycnium	Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Cydonia oblonga/	Cydonia oblonga	quince		live	leaf
aecium (mostly hypophyllous)		mostly hypophyllous aecium causes gall of live leaf			Photinia	Photinias	Rosales: Rosaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust		mostly hypophyllous		aecium	Foodplant / gall		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Photinia/	Photinia	Photinias		live	leaf
pycnium (epiphyllous)		epiphyllous pycnium parasitises live leaf			Photinia	Photinias	Rosales: Rosaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust		epiphyllous		pycnium	Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Photinia/	Photinia	Photinias		live	leaf
aecium (mostly hypophyllous)		mostly hypophyllous aecium causes gall of live leaf			Pyrus	pears	Rosales: Rosaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust		mostly hypophyllous		aecium	Foodplant / gall		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Pyrus/	Pyrus	pears		live	leaf
pycnium (epiphyllous)		epiphyllous pycnium parasitises live leaf			Pyrus	pears	Rosales: Rosaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust		epiphyllous		pycnium	Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Pyrus/	Pyrus	pears		live	leaf
aecium (mostly hypophyllous)		mostly hypophyllous aecium causes gall of live leaf			Pyrus communis	Pear	Rosales: Rosaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust		mostly hypophyllous		aecium	Foodplant / gall		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Pyrus communis/	Pyrus communis	pear		live	leaf
pycnium (epiphyllous)		epiphyllous pycnium parasitises live leaf			Pyrus communis	Pear	Rosales: Rosaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust		epiphyllous		pycnium	Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Pyrus communis/	Pyrus communis	pear		live	leaf
telium		telium parasitises live leaf			Juniperus chinensis	Chinese Juniper	Pinales: Cupressaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust				telium	Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Pinopsida/Pinales/Cupressaceae/Juniperus chinensis/	Juniperus chinensis	Chinese juniper		live	leaf
telium		telium parasitises live stem			Juniperus chinensis	Chinese Juniper	Pinales: Cupressaceae	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada, Laundon, G., 1977	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Gymnosporangium asiaticum/	Gymnosporangium asiaticum	Japanese pear rust				telium	Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Pinopsida/Pinales/Cupressaceae/Juniperus chinensis/	Juniperus chinensis	Chinese juniper		live	stem

Author & Year	Title	Source
Laundon, G., 1977	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada	I.M.I. Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria CMI Descriptions of Pathenogenic Fungi and Bacteria Sheet 541: 1.

Gymnosporangium asiaticum (Japanese Pear Rust) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Gymnosporangium asiaticum (Japanese Pear Rust) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

PUCCINIALES
(rust fungi)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

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

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Gymnosporangium asiaticum (Japanese Pear Rust)
Genus	Gymnosporangium (juniper rust)
Family	PUCCINIACEAE (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)

Gymnosporangium asiaticum 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 Gymnosporangium asiaticum (Japanese Pear Rust)

Identification Works

Handling & Magnification	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Laundon, G.	1977	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada	I.M.I. Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria CMI Descriptions of Pathenogenic Fungi and Bacteria Sheet 541: 1.

Gymnosporangium asiaticum (Japanese Pear Rust) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Gymnosporangium
(juniper 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))

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Gymnosporangium asiaticum (Japanese Pear Rust):

Gymnosporangium
(juniper rust)

PUCCINIACEAE
(a family of rust fungi)

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))

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