Pucciniosiraceae

The Pucciniosiraceae are a family of rust fungi in the order Pucciniales.^[1] The family contains 10 genera and 57 species.^[2]

Pucciniosiraceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Pucciniomycetes
Order:	Pucciniales
Family:	Pucciniosiraceae (Dietel) Cummins & Y. Hirats.
Type genus
Pucciniosira Lagerh.

In 2018, they were placed within the Uredinales order (which was a previous name for the Pucciniales).^[3][4] They are 'endocyclic rusts', species with endocyclic life cycles and having reduced autoecious life cycles (they complete their life cycle on a single host species), in which the aeciospores function as teliospores.^[5]

Genera

As accepted by Species Fungorum;^[6]

• Alveolaria - 2 spp.
• Baeodromus - 6 spp.
• Ceratocoma - 1 sp. (Ceratocoma jacksoniae (Henn. ex McAlpine) Buriticá & J.F. Hennen (1991))
• Chardoniella - 4 spp.
• Cionothrix - 6 spp.
• Didymopsora - 6 spp.
• Dietelia - 12 spp.
• Gambleola - 1 sp. (Gambleola cornuta Massee (1898))
• Pucciniosira - 15 spp.
• Trichopsora - 1 sp. (Trichopsora tournefortiae Lagerh. (1891))