Bluebush Rust:

Class:

Fungi (Fungi) - Basidio (Basidiomycota) - Rust Fungi (Pucciniomycetes)

Order:

Rusts (Pucciniales)

Family:

Bluebush Rust (Aecidium)

Species:

Bluebush Rust (Aecidium sp)

This Photo:

Thank you Dr Tom May for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
It is growing on Rosy Bluebush (Maireana erioclada)
Graham Patterson said "This is one of the spore-producing life cycle stages of a rust fungus. The different stages have in the past been given different names and this would be called a species of Aecidium. But now that the names are beginning to be sorted out this would probably be a Puccinia species."

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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