08-12-2025 17:37
Lothar Krieglsteiner
20.6.25, on branch of Abies infected and thickened
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Nicolas Suberbielle
Bonjour à tous, Je recherche cette publication :
15-02-2026 04:32
Tomaz Vucko
One more specimen that is giving me some descent a
17-02-2026 13:41
Isabelle CharissouBonjour, est-ce que quelqu'un pourrait me fournir
16-02-2026 18:34
Thierry Blondelle
Bonjour,La micro de cet anamorphe de Hercospora su
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Andreas Millinger
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16-02-2026 17:14
Joanne TaylorLast week we published the following paper where w
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Isabelle CharissouBonjour, quelqu'un pourrait-il me transmettre un
Hello, I have found plants of Euphorbia peplus and E. exigua infected with a rust which I believe it is Melampsora euphorbiae (confirmation would be kindly appreciated). I was amazed because it caused some hypertrophy on the host plants, namely more suculent leaves and stem, and leaves getting more separated and distant from each other. I do not know how common is this because the images I see on the net of the host plants with this fungus do not show a great deal of hypertrophy. The crater-like openings in the epidermis of the leaves are stunning under the microscope :-)
[EDIT]:
It was suggested that this corresponds better to Uromyces sp. due to the presence of aecia with pseudoperidium (Caeoma-aecia) that Melampsora euphorbiae usally lacks. See replies below.
no - Melampsora euphorbiae forms aecia (Caeoma type), the autoecical rust forms all 4(5) develompment stages on one host - compare for instance:
https://www.phytoparasiten.de/melampsora-euphorbiae-4/
Regards, Lothar
I will correct the title. I got a suggestion by Fabian Ernst of Uromyces tuberculosus which is cited to grow on E. peplus and E. exigua. I will seek further knowledge, but it is nice to learn new stuff here :-)
THANKS/
e.g.
https://bladmineerders.nl/parasites/fungi/dikarya/basidiomycota/pucciniomycotina/pucciniomycetes/pucciniales/pucciniales-incertae-sedis/aecidium/aecidium-euphorbiae/
I have an uprooted plant and two more, I will follow up. One of the plants is in its advanced state of infection so I will investigate further later on.
From what I read and learnt today, this would make my fungus Uromyces tuberculatus on the principle that Aecidium lacks completely the teliospore formation in its life cycle whereas U. tuberculatus grows specifically on E. exigua and forms verrucose teliospores.
However reading the host reaction (galling) of Aecidium euphorbiae on Euphorbia exigua, the symptms match perfectly to what I saw, thickened stems and leaves, erect growth, hypertrophy. Then, the same source (weblink above) says that U. tuberculatus rarely (does not) effects the host.
This makes things confusing, so unless we have double infection by two rust fungi (I think we can eliminate this possibility) the options are:
1. Uromyces tuberculatus but making an abnormal hypertropic reaction of the host OR
2. Aecidum euphorbiae but exceptionally is making teliospores on my sample.
I dont know what to choose between the two evils but 1 would be more realistic.
Yes we can conclude that this is Uromyces tuberculatus and that IT EFFECTS the host as explained above.
Great!