Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Physopella fici (Cast.) Arth. Result. Sci. Congr. Bot
Vienne 338. 1906.
Uredo Fici Cast. ; Desmaz. PL Crypt. (Fasc. 34) 1662. 1848. Uredo Citri Cooke, Grevillea 6 : 138. 1878. Uredo ficicola Speg. Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 17 : 120. 1884. Uredo citrina De-Toni, in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 7 : 845. 1888.
Uredinia hypophyllous, scattered thickiy over large areas, roundish, usualiy small, 0.1-0.3 mm. across, or rarely larger, bullate, arising between epidermis and mesophyl, tardily dehiscent by central rupture, encircled by delicate, evanescent paraphyses, pulverulent, pale cinnamon-brown, ruptured epidermis overarching or erect; urediniospores obovate-globoid, 14-20 by 18-27/"; wall pale-yellow, thin, 1-1.57', sharply and rather sparsely echinulate, pores obscure; paraphyses hyphoid, very delicate, collapsing, 60-80 fi long, wall colorless, very thin, slightly thickened at apex, 1^.
- bibliographic citation
- Joseph Charles Arthur. 1907. UREDINALES; COLEOSPORIACEAE, UREDINACEAE, AECIDIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 7(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY