Gymnosporangium clavipes

Gymnosporangium clavipes
A cedar-quince rust canker on a hawthorn branch
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Urediniomycetes
Subclass: Incertae sedis
Order: Uredinales
Family: Pucciniaceae
Genus: Gymnosporangium
Species: G. clavipes
Binomial name
Gymnosporangium clavipes
Cooke & Peck, (1873)
Synonyms

Gymnosporangium germinale F. Kern, (1908)

Gymnosporangium clavipes is a plant pathogen, a fungus that causes cedar-quince rust. Similar to Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae and Gymnosporangium globosum, the fungus infects a wide range of Rosaceae, such as apple, hawthorn and quince trees, and also requires an evergreen host such as Eastern Red Cedar or a number of other juniper species to complete its life cycle.[1]

References

  1. James Schuster, Cedar-Quince Rust. Accessed July 16, 2008.
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