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

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: FIG. 80. Puccinia whakatipu G.H. Cunn. on Anisotome filifolia (Hook. f.) Cockayne and Laing. Teleutospores and uredospore.
 

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: 0, I. Unknown.
II. Uredosori amphigenous, chiefly hypophyllous, and caulicolous, elliptical, 0.25-1 mm. long, scattered or crowded, bullate, pulverulent, cinnamon-brown, becoming exposed by the longitudinal fissuring of the epidermis. Spores elliptical, obovate, or subglobose, 22-35 X 18-25 mmm.; epispore pallid cinnamon, sparsely and bluntly echinulate, 2 mmm. thick, cell-contents granular, cinnamon; germ-pores 4, equatorial, obscure.
III. Teleutosori similar to the uredosori but dark chestnut-brown. Spores elliptical or subclavate, 30-40 X 20-26 mmm.; apex rounded, not thickened, base rounded, less commonly attenuate, both cells about the same size; slightly constricted at the septum; epispore minutely verruculose, chestnut-brown, 1-5-2 mmm. thick, cell-contents granular; pedicel persistent, hyaline, fragile, up to 30 X 6 mmm.; germ-pore of the upper cell apical, conspicuous, basal pore 2 below the septum, obscure.
Notes: This species is separated from the preceding on account of the minutely -verruculose epispore of the teleutospores, sparsely -warted cinnamon-coloured epispore of the uredospores, and different sorus characters. Although both occur on the same host, they show little other than a general resemblance to each other.

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: Cunningham (1931a) stated that in the original description of this species the host was erroneously listed as Anisotome filifolia. All hosts [Anisotome spp.] are endemic and confined to mountainous districts in the South Island. The rust is occasionally found in the mountainous districts in Otago and Canterbury.