Pucciniosiraceae Explained

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

In 2018, they were placed within the Uredinales order (which was a previous name for the Pucciniales).^{[2] [3]} 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.^[4]

Genera

As accepted by Species Fungorum;^[5]

• Alveolaria - 2 spp.
• Baeodromus - 6 spp.
• Ceratocoma - 1 sp. (Ceratocoma jacksoniae)
• Chardoniella - 4 spp.
• Cionothrix - 6 spp.
• Didymopsora - 6 spp.
• Dietelia - 12 spp.
• Gambleola - 1 sp. (Gambleola cornuta)
• Pucciniosira - 15 spp.
• Trichopsora - 1 sp. (Trichopsora tournefortiae)

Notes and References

1. Buriticá . Pablo . Hennen . Joe F. . Pucciniosireae (Uredinales, Pucciniaceae) . Flora Neotropica . 22 August 1980 . 24 . 1–48 . New York Botanical Garden Press.
2. Web site: Berndt . R. . The Pucciniosiraceae: Taxonomy of a polyphyletic family of the rust fungi (Uredinales) . en . 2018. 146012965 .
3. Aime . M.Catherine . Toward resolving family-level relationships in rust fungi (Uredinales) . Mycoscience . June 2006 . 47 . 3 . 112–122. 10.1007/S10267-006-0281-0 .
4. Aime . M.C. . McTaggart . A.R. . A higher-rank classification for rust fungi, with notes on genera . Fungal Systematics and Evolution . 13 November 2020 . 7 . 21–47 . 10.3114/fuse.2021.07.02. 34124616 . 8165960 .
5. Web site: Baeodromus - Search Page . www.speciesfungorum.org . Species Fungorum . 9 January 2023.