Uromycladium tepperianum

Uromycladium tepperianum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Pucciniomycetes
Order:
Pucciniales
Family:
Pileolariaceae
Genus:
Uromycladium
Species:
U. tepperianum
Binomial name
Uromycladium tepperianum
(Sacc.) McAlpine (1906)
Synonyms[1]
  • Uromyces tepperianus Sacc. (1889)
  • Coeomurus tepperianus (Sacc.) Kuntze (1898)

Uromycladium tepperianum is a rust fungus that infects over 100 species of Acacia and related genera including Paraserianthes in Australia, south-east Asia, the south Pacific and New Zealand.[2][3][4][5] The acacia gall rust fungus species Uromycladium tepperianum has been introduced to South Africa as a biological control on the invasive Australian shrub Acacia saligna.[2][6]

Uromycladium tepperianum is differentiated from other species of Uromycladium by the presence of three one-celled fertile teliospores on the pedicel.[7][8]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference urlFungorum synonymy: Uromycladium tepperianum was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Morris, M.J. (1987). Biology of the Acacia gall rust, Uromycladium tepperianum. Plant Pathol. 36: 100–106.
  3. ^ Shivas, R.G. (1989). Fungal and bacterial diseases of plants in Western Australia. Jour. Royal Soc. West. Aust. 72:1–62.
  4. ^ Walker, J. (1983). Pacific mycogeography: deficiencies and irregularities in the distribution of plant parasitic fungi. Aust. Jour. Bot. Suppl. Ser. 10: 89–136.
  5. ^ McKenzie, E.H.C. (1998). Rust fungi of New Zealand – an introduction and list of recorded species. N.Z. Jour. Bot. 36: 233–271.
  6. ^ Judith H. Myers, Dawn Bazely (2003). Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-35778-0.
  7. ^ McAlpine, D. (1905). A new genus of Uredineae – Uromycladium. Ann. Mycol. 3: 303–322.
  8. ^ Doungsa-ard, C., McTaggart, A.R., Geering, A.D.W., Dalisay, T.U., Ray, J. Shivas, R.G. 2015. Uromycladium falcatarium sp. nov., the cause of gall rust on Paraserianthes falcataria in south-east Asia. Australasian Plant Pathol. 44: 25–30. DOI 10.1007/s13313-014-0301-z