Puccinia oxyriae Fuckel
(Mountain Sorrel Rust)

Interactions where Puccinia oxyriae 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
telium		telium parasitises live			Oxyria digyna	Mountain Sorrel	Caryophyllales: Polygonaceae	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	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia oxyriae/	Puccinia oxyriae	mountain sorrel rust				telium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Polygonaceae/Oxyria digyna/	Oxyria digyna	mountain sorrel		live
uredium		uredium causes spots on live			Oxyria digyna	Mountain Sorrel	Caryophyllales: Polygonaceae	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	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia oxyriae/	Puccinia oxyriae	mountain sorrel rust				uredium	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Polygonaceae/Oxyria digyna/	Oxyria digyna	mountain sorrel		live

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

Puccinia oxyriae (Mountain Sorrel 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 oxyriae (Mountain Sorrel 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 oxyriae (Mountain Sorrel Rust)
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 oxyriae 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 oxyriae (Mountain Sorrel Rust)

Identification Works

Handling & Magnification	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Evans, D.	2014	Hunting rare rusts in NW Wales	Field Mycology Vol 15 (2): 57-61.

Puccinia oxyriae (Mountain Sorrel 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))

General Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Watling, R.	2009	A Plea from Roy Watling	2009 (1)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Puccinia oxyriae (Mountain Sorrel 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))

Rare

EX 1941

Although variously described as rare or extinct, there are specimens in RBG(E) and it’s apparently found wherever the host grows.

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