Puccinia albescens (Grev.) Plowr.
(a moschatel rust)

Interactions where Puccinia albescens is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
aecium		aecium causes gall of live stem			Adoxa moschatellina	Moschatel, Townhall Clock	Dipsacales: Adoxaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia albescens/	Puccinia albescens	a moschatel rust				aecium	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Adoxaceae/Adoxa moschatellina/	Adoxa moschatellina	moschatel, townhall clock		live	stem				(3-4)
aecium		aecium causes gall of live leaf			Adoxa moschatellina	Moschatel, Townhall Clock	Dipsacales: Adoxaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia albescens/	Puccinia albescens	a moschatel rust				aecium	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Adoxaceae/Adoxa moschatellina/	Adoxa moschatellina	moschatel, townhall clock		live	leaf				(3-4)
pycnium		pycnium causes gall of live stem			Adoxa moschatellina	Moschatel, Townhall Clock	Dipsacales: Adoxaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia albescens/	Puccinia albescens	a moschatel rust				pycnium	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Adoxaceae/Adoxa moschatellina/	Adoxa moschatellina	moschatel, townhall clock		live	stem
pycnium		pycnium causes gall of live leaf			Adoxa moschatellina	Moschatel, Townhall Clock	Dipsacales: Adoxaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia albescens/	Puccinia albescens	a moschatel rust				pycnium	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Adoxaceae/Adoxa moschatellina/	Adoxa moschatellina	moschatel, townhall clock		live	leaf
telium		telium causes gall of live stem			Adoxa moschatellina	Moschatel, Townhall Clock	Dipsacales: Adoxaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia albescens/	Puccinia albescens	a moschatel rust				telium	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Adoxaceae/Adoxa moschatellina/	Adoxa moschatellina	moschatel, townhall clock		live	stem				(5-6)
telium		telium causes gall of live leaf			Adoxa moschatellina	Moschatel, Townhall Clock	Dipsacales: Adoxaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia albescens/	Puccinia albescens	a moschatel rust				telium	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Adoxaceae/Adoxa moschatellina/	Adoxa moschatellina	moschatel, townhall clock		live	leaf				(5-6)
uredium		uredium causes gall of live stem			Adoxa moschatellina	Moschatel, Townhall Clock	Dipsacales: Adoxaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia albescens/	Puccinia albescens	a moschatel rust				uredium	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Adoxaceae/Adoxa moschatellina/	Adoxa moschatellina	moschatel, townhall clock		live	stem
uredium		uredium causes gall of live leaf			Adoxa moschatellina	Moschatel, Townhall Clock	Dipsacales: Adoxaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia albescens/	Puccinia albescens	a moschatel rust				uredium	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Adoxaceae/Adoxa moschatellina/	Adoxa moschatellina	moschatel, townhall clock		live	leaf

Author & Year	Title	Source
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota	517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls	95pp, British Plant Gall Society (BPGS)

Puccinia albescens (a moschatel rust) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Puccinia
(a genus of rust fungi)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Puccinia albescens (a moschatel rust) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Puccinia
(a genus of rust fungi)

PUCCINIALES
(rust fungi)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Puccinia albescens (a moschatel rust)
Species aggregate	Puccinia adoxae agg. (moschatel rusts)
Genus	Puccinia (a genus of rust fungi)
Family	PUCCINIACEAE (a family of rust fungi)
Order	PUCCINIALES (rust fungi)
Class	PUCCINIOMYCETES (rust fungi etc)
Subphylum	PUCCINIOMYCOTINA (rust fungi etc)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Puccinia albescens is also a member of:
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Pucciniomycetes)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Puccinia albescens (a moschatel rust)

Identification Works

Handling & Magnification	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Robinson, K.	2013	Spring foraying in the Forest of Dean	Field Mycology Vol 14 (2): 41-44.

Puccinia albescens (a moschatel rust) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

PUCCINIALES
(rust fungi)

PUCCINIOMYCETES
(rust fungi etc)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Puccinia albescens (a moschatel rust):

Puccinia
(a genus of rust fungi)

PUCCINIACEAE
(a family of rust fungi)

PUCCINIALES
(rust fungi)

PUCCINIOMYCETES
(rust fungi etc)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

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