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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Puccinia tiritea. Puccinia tiritea

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Non endemic

Article: Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005). Fungi on trees and shrubs in New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. Ngā Harore o Aotearoa 4: xi + 437 p. Hong Kong: Fungal Diversity Press.
Description: Type: Rust and Smut Fungi; Description: Spermagonia in scattered more or less circular groups, minute, immersed, yellow; on upper leaf surfaces. Uredinia minute, circular or elliptical, cinnamon brown, up to 1 mm in diameter; on lower surfaces of leaves. Urediniospores obovate to elliptical, 26–32 × 20–24 μm, coarsely and sparsely echinulate, cinnamon brown. Telia, which appear at the beginning of the winter, are similar to and at first intermixed with uredinia, dark brown. Teliospores broadly elliptical, 1-septate, 28–36 × 20–26 μm, coarsely warted, chestnut brown; pedicel deciduous.
Distribution: Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Taranaki, Taupo, Wanganui, Wellington, Wairarapa, Gisborne, Nelson, Buller, Fiordland, Kaikoura, Mid Canterbury, Mackenzie, Otago Lakes, Central Otago, Dunedin, Southland, Stewart Island, Chatham Islands.; 1st Record: Cunningham (1923a).

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:.
Notes: The rust is widespread throughout New Zealand. The host species Muehlenbeckia australis and M. complexa are endemic and widely distributed, whereas M. axillaris is indigenous and occurs also in Australia and Tasmania.