Pucciniosira

Pucciniosira is a genus of rust fungi belonging to the family Pucciniosiraceae.^[2][3][4]

Pucciniosira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Pucciniomycetes
Order:	Pucciniales
Family:	Pucciniosiraceae
Genus:	Pucciniosira Lagerh.[1]
Synonyms
Aecidiella J.B.Ellis & Kelsey, 1897 Didymosira F.E.Clements, 1909 Schizospora Dietel, 1895

The type species is Pucciniosira triumfettae Lagerh., 1892 which is now Pucciniosira pallidula.^[5]

The Pucciniosira species are characterized by having Puccinia-like teliospores that are produced in chains alternately with intercalary cells. The sori have a continuous to rudimentary peridium (protective layer). In some species, the teliospores break easily into halves along their septa.^[6] They form circular groups of rust spores on the lower surfaces of the leaves of various species of plants (including solanum species).^[7]

The genus name of Pucciniosira is in honour of Tommaso Puccini (1666-1735), who was an Italian botanist and doctor. He taught Anatomy at Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence.^[8]

Distribution

The species of this genus are found in America (including north America,^[9][10] Ecuador,^[7] Honduras,^[11] Guatemala,^[12] Panama,^[13] and Mexico,^[14]) and Africa (including Nigeria,^[15]) ,^[2] as well as New Zealand,^[16] and Australia (Gold Coast).^[17]

Ecology

In Veracruz within Mexico, species Pucciniosira pallidula (Speg.) Henn. (1896) infects Heliocarpus donnellsmithii Rose.^[14] Pucciniosira pallidula was also found on Triumfetta semitriloba Jacq. in Florida, USA.^[9]

In Panama, species Pucciniosira dorata is found on Triumfetta bogotensis (in Malvaceae family)^[13]

Pucciniosira holwayi H.S. Jacks. (1932) is found on Solanum laxiflorum (a synonym of Solanum barbeyanum^[18]) in Brazil. As well as Pucciniosira hyphoperidiata Viégas (1945) which is found on various solanum species. Pucciniosira solani Lagerh. ex Sacc. (1895) causes yellow leaf rust on solanum species in Brazil and Ecuador.^[7]

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;^[19]

• Pucciniosira albida Buriticá & Pardo-Card. (1998)
• Pucciniosira anthocleistae (Henn.) Henn. (1905)
• Pucciniosira arthurii Buriticá & J.F. Hennen (1980)
• Pucciniosira brickelliae Dietel & Holw. (1897)
• Pucciniosira clemensiae Arthur & Cummins (1937)
• Pucciniosira cumminsiana Buriticá & J.F. Hennen (1980)
• Pucciniosira deightonii Cummins (1945)
• Pucciniosira dorata Buriticá & J.F. Hennen (1980)
• Pucciniosira eupatorii Lagerh. (1918)
• Pucciniosira holwayi H.S. Jacks. (1932)
• Pucciniosira hyphoperidiata Viégas (1945)
• Pucciniosira mitragynae (Dietel) Dietel ex P. Syd. & Syd. (1915)
• Pucciniosira pallidula (Speg.) Henn. (1896)
• Pucciniosira solani Lagerh. ex Sacc. (1895)
• Pucciniosira tuberculata (Ellis & Kellerm.) Buriticá & J.F. Hennen (1991)

Former species, (all Pucciniosiraceae family)^[19]

• P. cornuta (Massee) Buriticá & J.F. Hennen (1988) = Gambleola cornuta
• P. dissotidis (Cooke) Wakef. (1917) = Puccinia dissotidis
• P. triumfettae Lagerh. (1892) = Pucciniosira pallidula
• P. triumfettae Lagerh. ex Sacc. (1895) = Pucciniosira pallidula