Puccinia albulensis Magnus 1890

Foodplant / gall
telium of Puccinia albulensis causes gall of leaf of Veronica

Foodplant / parasite
telium of Puccinia albulensis parasitises live stem of Veronica alpina

Micropuccinia veronicarum (DC.) Arthur & Jackson
Puccinia Veronicarum DC. Fl. Fr. 2: 594. 1805.
Puccinia Veronicarum fragilipes Korn. Hedwigia 16: 1. 1877.
Puccinia Veronicarum persistens Korn. Hedwigia 16: 1. 1877.
Puccinia Veronicae Wint. in Rab. Klrypt.-Fl. 1^: 166. 1881. Not P. VeronicaeSchroet. 1879, nor
Schum. 1880. Dicaeoma Veronicarum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3^: All. 1898. Leptopuccinia Veronicarum Sydow, Ann. Myc. 20: 121. 1922.
O. pycnia unknown, probably not formed.

Micropuccinia albulensis (P. Magn.) Arth. & Jackson;
Arth. Bull. Torrey Club 48: 42. 1921.
Puccinia Veronicae Schum.; Wint. Hedwigia 19: 164. 1880. Not P, Veronicae Schroet. 1879. Puccinia albulensis P. Magn. Ber. Deuts. Bot. Ges. 8: 169. 1890. Dicaeoma albulense Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3^: 467. 1898.
Pycnia unknown, probabiy not formed
Telia amphigenous and caulicolous, chiefiy from a distributed mycelium, eveniydisposed over considerable areas of intemodes and leaves, small, round, 0.2-0.4 mm. across. occasionally confluent, early naked, pulverulent, or compact in germinating sori, ruptured epidermis not conspicuous, cinnamon-brown, becoming cinereous by germination, more rarely solitary or gregarious and then usually larger, 0.5-0.8 mm. across, pulverulent, with ruptured epidermis conspicuous; teliospores ellipsoid or somewhat fusiform, l';^18 by 24-34 m, rounded or obtuse above, rounded or narrowed below, not or slightly constricted at septum; wall goldenor light cinnamon-brown, thin, 1-1.5 {x, thickened 3-5 /x above, smooth or very minutely verrucose-rugose, best observed when dry; pedicel colorless, short, deciduous, or in pulvinate sori twice length of spore.
On Scrophulariaceae :
Veronica Cusickii A. Gray, Washington.
Veronica Wormskjoldii R. & S. (V. alpina unalaschkensis Cham. & Schlecht.), Colorado.
Montana, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming; Greenland; British Columbia.
Type locality: Canton Graubimden, Switzerland, on Veronica alpina.
pisTRTBUTiON : Westem Colorado and central Utah northward to southern British Columbia,
and in Greenland; also in Europe.