Puccinia (a genus of rust fungi)

Interactions where Puccinia 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 Stage	Relationship	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive State
telium?	telium? parasitises live	Carex aquatilis	Water Sedge	Poales: Cyperaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia/	Puccinia	a genus of rust fungi	telium?	Foodplant / parasite		/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Cyperaceae/Carex aquatilis/	Carex aquatilis	water sedge	live
uredium?	uredium? parasitises live	Carex aquatilis	Water Sedge	Poales: Cyperaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia/	Puccinia	a genus of rust fungi	uredium?	Foodplant / parasite		/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Cyperaceae/Carex aquatilis/	Carex aquatilis	water sedge	live
uredium	uredium parasitises live	Carex binervis	Green-ribbed Sedge	Poales: Cyperaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia/	Puccinia	a genus of rust fungi	uredium	Foodplant / parasite	UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Cyperaceae/Carex binervis/	Carex binervis	green-ribbed sedge	live
telium?	telium? parasitises live	Carex hostiana	Tawny Sedge	Poales: Cyperaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia/	Puccinia	a genus of rust fungi	telium?	Foodplant / parasite		/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Cyperaceae/Carex hostiana/	Carex hostiana	tawny sedge	live
uredium?	uredium? parasitises live	Carex hostiana	Tawny Sedge	Poales: Cyperaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia/	Puccinia	a genus of rust fungi	uredium?	Foodplant / parasite		/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Cyperaceae/Carex hostiana/	Carex hostiana	tawny sedge	live
uredium	uredium parasitises live	Carex laevigata	Smooth-stalked Sedge	Poales: Cyperaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia/	Puccinia	a genus of rust fungi	uredium	Foodplant / parasite		/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Cyperaceae/Carex laevigata/	Carex laevigata	smooth-stalked sedge	live
telium	telium parasitises live	Carex viridula ssp brachyrrhyncha	Long-stalked Yellow Sedge, Long-stalked Yellow-sedge	Poales: Cyperaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia/	Puccinia	a genus of rust fungi	telium	Foodplant / parasite		/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Cyperaceae/Carex viridula subsp. brachyrrhyncha/	Carex viridula subsp. brachyrrhyncha	long-stalked yellow sedge, long-stalked yellow-sedge	live
uredium	uredium parasitises live	Carex viridula ssp brachyrrhyncha	Long-stalked Yellow Sedge, Long-stalked Yellow-sedge	Poales: Cyperaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia/	Puccinia	a genus of rust fungi	uredium	Foodplant / parasite		/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Cyperaceae/Carex viridula subsp. brachyrrhyncha/	Carex viridula subsp. brachyrrhyncha	long-stalked yellow sedge, long-stalked yellow-sedge	live

Interactions where Puccinia 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 State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive State	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Summary
(live)	live sorus is parasitised by basally or completely immersed pseudothecium	Eudarluca caricis	an ascomycete	Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Phaeosphaeriaceae/Eudarluca caricis/	Eudarluca caricis	an ascomycete	basally or completely immersed		pseudothecium	Fungus / parasite	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia/	Puccinia	a genus of rust fungi	live	sorus		basally or completely immersed pseudothecium parasitises live sorus
(live)	live sorus is parasitised by immersed or erumpent Sphaerellopsis coelomycetous anamorph	Eudarluca caricis	an ascomycete	Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Phaeosphaeriaceae/Eudarluca caricis/	Eudarluca caricis	an ascomycete	immersed or erumpent		Sphaerellopsis coelomycetous anamorph	Fungus / parasite	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia/	Puccinia	a genus of rust fungi	live	sorus	Major	immersed or erumpent Sphaerellopsis coelomycetous anamorph parasitises live sorus
(live)	live is parasitised by circularly arranged sporodochium of Tuberculina anamorph	Tuberculina persicina	an anamorphic pucciniomycete	Helicobasidiales: Helicobasidiaceae	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/Helicobasidiales/Helicobasidiaceae/Tuberculina persicina/	Tuberculina persicina	an anamorphic pucciniomycete	circularly arranged	sporodochium	Tuberculina anamorph	Fungus / parasite	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia/	Puccinia	a genus of rust fungi	live			circularly arranged sporodochium of Tuberculina anamorph parasitises live

Author & Year	Title	Source
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998	Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 246pp, 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

Puccinia (a genus of rust fungi) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Puccinia (a genus of rust fungi) may also 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))

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Puccinia acetosae a rust fungus	Species		6 trophisms
Puccinia adoxae agg. moschatel rusts	Species aggregate	3 subtaxa	16 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia aegopodii Ground Elder Rust	Species		5 trophisms	2 references
Puccinia albulensis Alpine Veronica Rust	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia angelicae a rust fungus	Species		16 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia annularis Wood Sage Rust	Species		1 trophisms
Puccinia antirrhini Antirrhinum Rust, Snapdragon Rust	Species		6 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia apii Celery Rust	Species		8 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia arenariae Sweet William Rust	Species		24 trophisms	2 references
Puccinia asarina Asarabacca Rust	Species		1 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia asparagi Asparagus Rust	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia asperulae-cynanchicae a rust fungus	Species		2 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia behenis a rust fungus	Species		10 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia betonicae Betony Rust	Species		1 trophisms
Puccinia bistortae a rust fungus	Species		9 trophisms
Puccinia brachypodii a rust fungus	Species	3 subtaxa	38 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia bulbocastani Great Pignut Rust	Species		5 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia bupleuri a rust fungus	Species		5 trophisms
Puccinia buxi Box Rust	Species		2 trophisms	3 references
Puccinia calcitrapae a rust fungus	Species		52 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia calthae a rust fungus	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia calthicola a rust fungus	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia campanulae a rust	Species		8 trophisms
Puccinia cancellata a rust fungus	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia caricina Currant Clustercup Rust	Species	6 subtaxa	55 trophisms
Puccinia chaerophylli a rust fungus	Species		22 trophisms
Puccinia chrysosplenii a rust fungus	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia cicutae Cowbane Rust	Species		6 trophisms
Puccinia circaeae a rust fungus	Species		6 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia cladii Great Fen Sedge Rust	Species		2 trophisms
Puccinia clintonii Lousewort Rust	Species		6 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia cnici a rust fungus	Species		12 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia cnici-oleracei Yarrow Rust	Species		9 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia commutata a rust fungus	Species		15 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia conii Hemlock Rust	Species		3 trophisms
Puccinia convolvuli Bindweed Rust	Species		7 trophisms
Puccinia coronata Crown Rust	Species		63 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia crepidicola a rust fungus	Species		9 trophisms
Puccinia cyani Centaurea Rust	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia difformis a rust fungus	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia dioicae a rust fungus	Species	5 subtaxa	25 trophisms
Puccinia elymi a rust fungus	Species		6 trophisms
Puccinia epilobii a rust fungus	Species		5 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia eriophori Deer Grass Rust	Species		6 trophisms
Puccinia eutremae Scurvy-grass Rust	Species		6 trophisms
Puccinia fergussonii Marsh Violet Rust	Species		1 trophisms	2 references
Puccinia festucae Honeysuckle Rust	Species		15 trophisms
Puccinia galii-cruciatae a rust fungus	Species		5 trophisms
Puccinia galii-verni a rust fungus	Species		9 trophisms
Puccinia gentianae a rust fungus	Species		10 trophisms
Puccinia gladioli a rust	Species		1 trophisms
Puccinia glechomatis Ground-ivy Rust	Species		3 trophisms
Puccinia glomerata a rust fungus	Species		3 trophisms
Puccinia graminis Black Stem Rust	Species	8 subtaxa	184 trophisms	8 references
Puccinia hemerocallidis (Daylily Rust)	Species		4 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia heraclei a rust fungus	Species		5 trophisms
Puccinia heucherae Coral-bells Rust, Heuchera Rust	Species		1 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia hieracii a rust fungus	Species	3 subtaxa	81 trophisms
Puccinia hordei Barley Leaf Rust	Species		38 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia horiana White Rust Of Chrysanthemums, Chrysanthemum White Rust	Species		1 trophisms
Puccinia hydrocotyles Rusty Pennies - causative organism	Species		2 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia hysterium a rust fungus	Species		7 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia iridis Iris Rust	Species		11 trophisms
Puccinia kusanoi a bamboo rust	Species		12 trophisms	2 references
Puccinia lagenophorae Cineraria Rust, Daisy Rust	Species		41 trophisms	3 references
Puccinia lapsanae a rust fungus	Species		6 trophisms
Puccinia libanotidis Moon Carrot Rust	Species		4 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia liliacearum a rust fungus	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia ljulinica a rust fungus	Species		1 trophisms
Puccinia longicornis a bamboo rust	Species		11 trophisms	3 references
Puccinia longissima Crested Hair-grass Rust	Species		2 trophisms
Puccinia luzulae a rust fungus	Species		2 trophisms
Puccinia maculosa a rust fungus	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia magnusiana Reed/Buttercup Rust	Species		13 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia major a rust fungus	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia malvacearum Mallow and Hollyhock Rust, Mallow Rust	Species		32 trophisms	2 references
Puccinia mariana Milk Thistle Rust	Species		2 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia menthae Mint Rust	Species		43 trophisms	2 references
Puccinia microsora Bladder Sedge Rust	Species		2 trophisms
Puccinia mirabilissima Mahonia Rust	Species		20 trophisms	2 references
Puccinia moliniae Purple Moor Grass Rust	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia nemoralis Cow-wheat Clustercup Rust	Species		4 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia nitida Dill Rust	Species		26 trophisms
Puccinia obscura a rust fungus	Species		12 trophisms
Puccinia opizii Lettuce Rust	Species		12 trophisms
Puccinia oxalidis Oxalis Rust	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia oxyriae Mountain Sorrel Rust	Species		2 trophisms	2 references
Puccinia paludosa a rust fungus	Species		10 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia pazschkei Saxifrage Rust	Species	2 subtaxa	5 trophisms
Puccinia pelargonii-zonalis Pelargonium Rust	Species		2 trophisms	2 references
Puccinia phragmitis a rust fungus	Species		16 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia physospermi Bladder-seed Rust	Species		2 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia pimpinellae a rust fungus	Species		9 trophisms
Puccinia poarum Meadow Grass Rust	Species		17 trophisms
Puccinia polemonii Rusty Ladders, Jacob’s-ladder Rust	Species		1 trophisms
Puccinia polygoni-amphibii a rust fungus	Species	3 subtaxa	9 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia porri Leek Rust, Allium Rust	Species		27 trophisms
Puccinia pratensis Meadow Oat-grass Rust	Species		2 trophisms
Puccinia primulae Primrose Rust	Species		9 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia prostii a rust fungus	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia pulverulenta a rust fungus	Species		24 trophisms
Puccinia punctata a rust fungus	Species		37 trophisms
Puccinia punctiformis Creeping Thistle Rust	Species		6 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia pygmaea a rust fungus	Species	2 subtaxa	6 trophisms
Puccinia recondita Brown Rust, Brown Rust Of Wheat	Species	1 subtaxa	53 trophisms	3 references
Puccinia ribis Downy Currant Rust	Species		1 trophisms
Puccinia rugulosa Hog’s Fennel Rust	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia saniculae Sanicle Rust	Species		8 trophisms
Puccinia saxifragae a rust fungus	Species		5 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia schroeteri a rust fungus	Species		3 trophisms
Puccinia schroeteriana a rust fungus	Species		3 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia scirpi Common Club Rush Rust	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia scorzonerae Scorzonera Rust	Species		1 trophisms
Puccinia septentrionalis Alpine Rust	Species		5 trophisms
Puccinia sessilis Lily-of-the-valley, Ramsons and Arum Rust	Species		24 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia smyrnii Alexanders Rust	Species		7 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia sorghi Maize Rust	Species		8 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia striiformis Yellow Rust, Stripe Rust or Spring Rust	Species	2 subtaxa	52 trophisms	6 references
Puccinia tanaceti Chrysanthemum Rust, Tansy Rust	Species		17 trophisms
Puccinia thesii Bastard Toadflax Rust, Bastard-toadflax Rust	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia thymi Thyme Rust	Species		6 trophisms
Puccinia tumida Pignut Rust	Species		3 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia uliginosa a rust fungus	Species		3 trophisms
Puccinia umbilici Navelwort Rust	Species		4 trophisms
Puccinia urticata Nettle Clustercup Rust	Species	9 subtaxa	59 trophisms
Puccinia variabilis a rust fungus	Species		6 trophisms
Puccinia veronicae Wood Speedwell Rust	Species		2 trophisms	1 references
Puccinia veronicae-longifoliae a rust fungus	Species		1 trophisms
Puccinia vincae Periwinkle Rust	Species		8 trophisms	2 references
Puccinia violae Violet Rust	Species		67 trophisms
Puccinia virgae-aureae a rust fungus	Species		1 trophisms
[Puccinia (grass rusts)] grass rusts	Informal	17 subtaxa	405 trophisms	20 references

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Puccinia (a genus of rust fungi)

Author	Year	Title	Source
Wilson, M.	1940	The British species of Puccinia included under "P. syngenesiarum" with notes upon the British rust fungi occurring on thistles	TBMS Vol 24(2): 244-250.

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Genus	Puccinia (a genus of rust fungi)
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)

Puccinia Pers.
(a genus of rust fungi)

Interactions where Puccinia is the dominant partner and gains from the process

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

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Puccinia is also a member of:

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