Puccinia dioicae

Puccinia dioicae is a plant pathogen that causes rust on goldenrod.

Puccinia dioicae
Puccinia dioicae on a leaf of Taraxacum officinale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Pucciniomycetes
Order:	Pucciniales
Family:	Pucciniaceae
Genus:	Puccinia
Species:	P. dioicae
Binomial name
Puccinia dioicae Magnus (1877)
Synonyms
Aecidium compositarum var. taraxaci (Kunze & J.C. Schmidt) Grev., (1824) Aecidium taraxaci Kunze & J.C. Schmidt, (1817) Dicaeoma dioicae (Magnus) Syd., (1922)

It is common in Iceland, where it infects Taraxacum species and Carex capillaris. Pycniospores and aeciospores are found on Taraxacum sp., and uredospores and teliospores are found on Carex capillaris.^[1]

See also

• List of Puccinia species