Sighting 3388652
Hughes, ACT
Identification history
| Rust fungus | 10 Jan 2018 | Heino | ||
| Geranium solanderi | 9 Jan 2018 | ruthkerruish |
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User's notes
This a rust - not sure which one - there is native rust (Puccinia morrisoni) which affects pelargoniums and another rust (P. pelargonii-zonalis) which is a serious diseases of some cultivated species. I am not sure whether to put this sighting under the host (Geranium solanderi) or the rust!
4 comments
KenT
wrote:
9 Jan 2018
Sorry Ruth one needs to look at the associated fungi with a microscope. John Walker in his paper "The rusts of Geraniaceae in Australia" (Polish Botanical Journal 55(2): 315–334, 2010) listed two species on Geranium (Puccinia geranii-pilosi and Uromyces geranii), two species on Pelargonium (Puccinia pelargonii-zonalis and Puccinia morrisonii) and the possibility of several other species yet to be recorded from Australian Geraniaceae.
Heino
wrote:
10 Jan 2018
Okay Ruth, I've created Rust fungus as a holding category for sightings such as this, where a more precise identification is not possible.
ruthkerruish
wrote:
10 Jan 2018
Thank you. Actually I keep herbarium specimens of sightings such as these.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.098855-35.338798
- Maps Hughes Garran Woodland Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 8 Jan 2018 12:00 AM Recorded on
- ruthkerruish Recorded by
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Collections
Fungi Fungal galls, other rusts, leaf spots, etc Other rusts, leaf spots, sooty moulds
Additional information
- Less than 10cm Plant height
Species information
- Rust fungus Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 613.2m to 696.18m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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