Phylum: Basidiomycota Class: Pucciniomycetes
Order: Pucciniales Family: Melampsoraceae
Species: Melampsora lini var. lini (Ehrenb.) Thüm.
Synonyms: Lecythea lini
Melampsora lini
Uredo lini
Xyloma lini
Common Name:


A Rust Fungus
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Melampsora lini var. liniPhotographer: © Stuart Dunlop
On Fairy Flax, Linum catharticum
Photographer: © Stuart Dunlop

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Associated Species (where recorded) & number of records:
Linum catharticum (1)
Habitat (where recorded) & number of records:
Sand-dune (1)
Substrate (where recorded) & number of records:
Leaf (1)
Months recorded in & number of records:
January (2)
April (1)
July (1)
September (1)