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 Uredo scirpi-nodosi
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
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Caption: FIG. 116. Uredo Scirpi-nodosi McAlp. Uredospores from Scirpus inundatus Poir. |
Article: Dingley, J.M. (1969). Records of plant diseases in New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Bulletin 192: 298 p. Wellington:.
Article: Cunningham, G.H. (1924). The Uredinales, or rust-fungi, of New Zealand: supplement to Part 1; and Part 2. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 55: 1-58 Wellington:.
Description: II. Uredosori caulicolous, scattered or crowded, elliptical, up to 2 mm. long, cinnamon-brown, bullate, pulverulent, becoming exposed by the longitudinal fissuring of the epidermis.
Spores elliptical, obovate, or subglobose, 25-35 X 20-25 mmm.; epispore tinted cinnamon-brown, coarsely and sparsely echinulate, 2-2.5 mmm. thick, cell-contents granular, cinnamon-brown; germ-pores equatorial, 2, conspicuous.
Distribution: Distribution: Victoria.
Notes: The host is indigenous, and is widespread, occurring in marshy localities from sea-level to
1,000m.; it occurs also in Australia, Malay Archipelago, and temperate South America.
(Cheeseman, 1906, p. 775.)
The rust forms conspicuous bullate sori on the stems; these are usually severely infected with
Darluca filum Cast. Characterized by the thick coloured epispore, and the two equatorial
conspicuous germ-pores.
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