| Puccinia dioicae | |
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| 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) Contents | |
Puccinia dioicae is a plant pathogen that causes rust on goldenrod.
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]