Bluebush Rust
On Rosy Bluebush
Common Crowfoot Rust
Animals
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| Bluebush Rust On Rosy Bluebush | | Common Crowfoot Rust | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Fungi (Fungi) - Basidio (Basidiomycota) - Rust Fungi (Pucciniomycetes) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Rusts (Pucciniales) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Bluebush Rust (Aecidium) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Bluebush Rust (Puccinia kochiae)| This Photo: | 🔍Close Up🔎 | 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) on Ellura. It seems it also grows on other fleshy/succulent aramanths as well, eg Ruby Saltbush. 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."
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