Puccinia lagenophorae
Puccinia lagenophorae is a gall-causing rust affecting stems and leaves of Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris), and occasionally Oxford Ragwort (Senecio squalidus) and Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris). It causes swelling and distortion of stems and leaves, with bright orange aecia. There are no uredinia or spermogonia, and the blackish-brown telia are rarely seen
Puccinia distincta is closely related, forming galls on Bellis perennis; these may be part of a species complex.
Originally of Australian origin, and only known in the UK since 1961. It is now widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Believed to be fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Sapcote
24 March 2014
on Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris)
Mike Higgott
Anstey garden
14 September 2020
on Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
24 March 2014
on Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris)
David Nicholls
Leicester, Abbey Park
09 February 2022
on Oxford Ragwort
Graham Calow
Sapcote
24 March 2014
on Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris)
Andy's Rutland
Empingham Cricket Ground
24 February 2019
on groundsel
Graham Calow
Sapcote
24 March 2014
on Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris)
Andy's Rutland
Empingham Cricket Ground
24 February 2019
on groundsel
sue
Stoke Golding, Church Walks
05 October 2019
on groundsel
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Species profile
- Common names
- Daisy Rust
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Pucciniales
- Family:
- Pucciniaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 93
- First record:
- 24/03/2014 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 12/03/2025 (Pugh, Dylan)
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Mike Higgott
Anstey garden
29 May 2016
on Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris)
Mike Higgott
Anstey garden
29 May 2016
on Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris)
Craig Mabbett
Stockhill Farm Cosby
27 September 2018
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Land off Sapcote Road
03 September 2022
