Puccinia monoica

Puccinia monoica
Puccinia pseudoflowers produced on Boechera retrofracta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Pucciniomycetes
Order:	Pucciniales
Family:	Pucciniaceae
Genus:	Puccinia
Species:	P. monoica
Binomial name
Puccinia monoica Arthur[1]
Synonyms
Aecidium monoicum Peck, Bot. Gaz. 4(11): 230 (1879) Dicaeoma monoicum (Peck) Arthur & Fromme, N. Amer. Fl. (New York) 7(4): 312 (1920)

Puccinia monoica is a parasitic rust fungus of the genus Puccinia that inhibits flowering in its host plant (usually a Boechera species) and radically transforms host morphology in order to facilitate its own sexual reproduction.