Chrysomyxa ledicola | |
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Chrysomyxa ledicola as "orange goo" in Kivalina, Alaska | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Pucciniomycetes |
Order: | Pucciniales |
Family: | Coleosporiaceae |
Genus: | Chrysomyxa |
Species: | C. ledicola
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Binomial name | |
Chrysomyxa ledicola Lagerh. 1893
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Chrysomyxa ledicola is a plant pathogen responsible for the disease large-spored spruce-Labrador tea rust. It affects white spruce, black spruce, Sitka spruce, Engelmann spruce, and Labrador-tea.[1] It is also the cause of the orange goo that covered the Iñupiat village of Kivalina, Alaska in the summer of 2011.[2]
The aecial hosts of Chrysomyxa ledicola in B.C. include white, black, Sitka, and Englemann [sic] spruce. The telial hosts are Labrador-tea and northern Labrador-tea.
An "orange goo" covered the Inupiat village of Kivalina, Alaska last summer. Six months later the substance was confirmed by forestry experts at the USDA Forest Service and the Canadian Forest Service to be rust fungi uredospores of Chrysomyxa ledicola.