Pucciniaceae
Family of fungi
title: "Pucciniaceae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["fungal-plant-pathogens-and-diseases", "basidiomycota-families", "pucciniales", "taxa-named-by-françois-fulgis-chevallier", "taxa-described-in-1826"] description: "Family of fungi" topic_path: "general/fungal-plant-pathogens-and-diseases" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pucciniaceae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Family of fungi ::
| image = Bruine roest op tarwe (Puccinia recondita f.sp. tritici on Triticum aestivum).jpg | image_caption = Puccinia triticina | taxon = Pucciniaceae | authority = Chevall. (1826) | type_genus = Puccinia | type_genus_authority = Pers. (1794) | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision =
The Pucciniaceae are a family of rust fungi that cause plant diseases, mainly on cereals such as wheat. The family contains over 4900 species: many of them in the type genus Puccinia.
Genera
Genera in the Pucciniaceae (with estimated numbers of species):
- Allodus (1)
- Chrysella (1)
- Chrysocelis (5)
- Chrysocyclus (3)
- Chrysopsora (1)
- Cleptomyces (1)
- Coleopucciniella (2)
- Corbulopsora (3)
- Cumminsiella (8)
- Endophyllum (43)
- Kernella (1)
- Miyagia (3)
- Polioma (5)
- Puccinia (ca. 3300)
- Ramakrishnania (1)
- Roestelia (15)
- Stereostratum (1)
- Uredo (ca. 780)
- Uromyces (ca. 1500)
- Xenostele (4) Note: the genus Zaghouania (synonym Cystopsora ) is now placed to the restored family Zaghouaniaceae.
References
References
- (2008). "[[Dictionary of the Fungi]]". [[CABI (organisation).
- (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere.
- Aime MC, McTaggart AR (2021) A higher-rank classification for rust fungi, with notes on genera. ''Fungal Syst. Evol.'' 7: 21–47. (Published online 2020 Nov 13. doi: 10.3114/fuse.2021.07.02 available at [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8165960/ NCBI])
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