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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Uredo toetoe. Uredo toetoe

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: FIG. 113. Uredo toetoe G.H. Cunn. Uredospores from Arundo conspicua Forst. f.
 

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 hypophyllous, scattered, seated on discoloured spots visible on the upper surface, elliptical, 0.5-1. mm.. long, or confluent and up to 4 -mm. long, bright reddish-brown, pulverulent, naked or surrounded by the ruptured epidermis. Spores elliptical or subglobose, 20-30 X 20-26 mmm.; epispore reddish-brown, finely and closely echinulate, 1.5-2 mmm. thick, cell-contents granular, brown; germ-pores scattered, numerous (7-12), conspicuous, papillate.
Notes: The host is endemic, and is abundant throughout. (Cheeseman, 1906, p. 893.).
The rust is characterized by the conspicuous reddish-brown sori, closely and finely echinulate epispore, and numerous scattered, conspicuous; papillate germ-pores.