Phylum: Basidiomycota Class: Pucciniomycetes
Order: Pucciniales Family: Pucciniaceae
Species: Puccinia lapsanae Fuckel
Synonyms: Aecidium compositarum var. lapsanae
Aecidium lapsanae
Caeoma compositarum
Trichobasis cichoracearum var. lapsanae
Trichobasis lapsanae
Uredo apiculata
Common Name:


A Rust Fungus
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Puccinia lapsanaePhotographer: © Stuart Dunlop
On Nipplewort, Lapsana communis
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Associated Species (where recorded) & number of records:
Lapsana communis (4)
Habitat (where recorded) & number of records:
Woodland: mixed (1)
Woodland: mixed, semi-natural (1)
Substrate (where recorded) & number of records:
Living leaf (1)
Months recorded in & number of records:
July (1)
August (1)
September (2)
October (1)