Puccinia aegopodii. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].
Abstract A description is provided for Puccinia aegopodii. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. DISEASE: Rust of Aegopodium species only. HOSTS: Aegopodium podagraria, A. alpestre (Umbelliferae) (eastern part of the range). GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: ASIA: China, Republic of Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Russia (Altai krai, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Yakut Republic (Siberia)). EUROPE: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (Bashkir Republic, Ivanovo, Karelia Republic, Kursk, Leningrad, Moscow, Nizhni Novgorod, North Ossetia Republic, Samara, Saratov, Tatar Republic, Voronezh, Vyatka), Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine. TRANSMISSION: No detailed studies have been reported; teliospores are presumably dispersed by air currents and then germinate to produce basidia with basidiospores, which re-infect the host plants.