Phylum: Basidiomycota Class: Pucciniomycetes
Order: Pucciniales Family: Phragmidiaceae
Species: Phragmidium violaceum (Schultz) Brockm.
Synonyms: Lecythea ruborum
Puccinia violacea
Rhwd Mieri Fioled
Uredo ruborum
Common Name: Violet Bramble Rust


A Rust Fungus
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Phragmidium violaceumPhotographer: © David Mitchel
On Bramble, Rubus fruticosus
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Associated Species (where recorded) & number of records:
Rubus fruticosus agg. (69)
Habitat (where recorded) & number of records:
Woodland and scrub (12)
Woodland: broadleaved, semi-natural (8)
Woodland: mixed (7)
Neutral grassland: semi-improved (5)
Parkland and scattered trees (4)
Woodland (4)
Woodland: broadleaved (3)
Woodland: mixed, plantation (3)
Built up area, domestic (2)
Acid grassland (1)
Bog: raised (1)
Grassland and marsh (1)
Marsh/marshy grassland (1)
Scrub (1)
Woodland: coniferous, plantation (1)
Woodland: mixed, semi-natural (1)
Substrate (where recorded) & number of records:
Leaf (52)
Branch (1)
Leaf Litter (1)
Stem, herbaceous (1)
Months recorded in & number of records:
January (4)
March (1)
May (4)
June (3)
July (4)
August (13)
September (17)
October (29)
November (9)