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Phragmidium bulbosum
A gall-causing rust fungus that affects the leaves of various Rubus species (Blackberry, Dewberry etc.). There is no host alternation. It is usually recorded in the telial stage, which are black and in the leaf undersides. Spermogonia are on the leaf upperside, and minute yellow aecia underside.
Seems to be quite widely distributed in Britain, though not well recorded.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Pucciniales
- Family:
- Phragmidiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 90
- First record:
- 21/04/2016 (Grimes, Martin)
- Last record:
- 23/10/2023 (lemmon, roy)
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