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Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906

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Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine, Rusts Australia 195 (1906)
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906

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Indigenous
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New Zealand
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McAlpine
McAlpine
1906
195
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Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
species
Aecidium plantaginis-variae
Type Australia

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plantaginis-variae

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Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906

Host : Plantago spathulata Hook. f. On leaves and petioles. Herb. No. 275. Burke's Pass (Canterbury), W. D. Reid ! 18 Nov., 1919.
0. Spermogones amphigenous, chiefly epiphyllous, immersed, numerous.
I. Aecidia amphigenous and petiolicolous, scattered or gregarious, orange-yellow. Peridia slightly erumpent, cupulate, 0.2-0.25 mm. diam., tinted cream, margins slightly expanded, not revolute, minutely dentate. Spores subglobose, polygonal, or elliptical, 20-30 X 18-22 mmm., epispore hyaline, densely and minutely verruculose, 1 mmm thick, cell-contents granular, yellow.
Distribution: Victoria; New South Wales; Tasmania.
The host is endemic, and, although not uncommon in the South Island, is confined to a few localities in the North. (Cheeseman, 1906, p. 571.) This species is characterized by the scattered, small-sized aecidia.

Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906

This rust was described from Australia. Cunningham (1924a) described it from New Zealand on endemic species of Plantago (P. spathulata). In 1928 he recorded that it also occurred on P. triantha, a species that also occurs in Australia. The rust is found only in the South Island.

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Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine (1906)
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine (1906)
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine (1906)
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine (1906)
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine (1906)
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine (1906)
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine (1906)
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine (1906)
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine (1906)

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Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
New Zealand
Central Otago
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
New Zealand
Mackenzie
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
New Zealand
Mid Canterbury
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
New Zealand
Otago Lakes
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
New Zealand
South Canterbury
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
New Zealand
Taranaki
Aecidium plantaginis-variae McAlpine 1906
New Zealand
Westland

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Type Australia

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