Chrysomyxa

Chrysomyxa is a genus of rust fungi in the family Coleosporiaceae. The genus, widespread in the Northern Hemisphere, contains about 23 species.[1] Rust fungi in the genus Chrysomyxa occur in boreal forests of the northern hemisphere on Pinaceae, (mostly Picea), and most species alternate to angiosperm hosts in the Ericaceae.[2]

Chrysomyxa
Chrysomyxa rhododendri on Norway spruce
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Pucciniomycetes
Order:	Pucciniales
Family:	Coleosporiaceae
Genus:	Chrysomyxa Unger (1840)
Type species
Chrysomyxa abietis (Wallr.) Unger (1840)
Species
See text
Synonyms
Barclayella Dietel (1890) Melampsoropsis (J.Schröt.) Arthur (1906) Stilbechrysomyxa M.M.Chen

Species

• Chrysomyxa abietis
• Chrysomyxa arctostaphyli
• Chrysomyxa cassandrae
• Chrysomyxa chiogenis
• Chrysomyxa diebuensis[3]
• Chrysomyxa empetri
• Chrysomyxa expansa
• Chrysomyxa himalensis
• Chrysomyxa ledi
• Chrysomyxa ledicola
• Chrysomyxa nagodhii
• Chrysomyxa neoglandulosi
• Chrysomyxa piperiana
• Chrysomyxa pirolata
• Chrysomyxa pyrolae
• Chrysomyxa reticulata
• Chrysomyxa rhododendri
• Chrysomyxa roanensis
• Chrysomyxa stilbae
• Chrysomyxa succinea
• Chrysomyxa vaccinii
• Chrysomyxa weirii
• Chrysomyxa woroninii
• Chrysomyxa zhuoniensis[3]

References

1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp. 140–1. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
2. Crane, P.E. 2001. Morphology, taxonomy, and nomenclature of the Chrysomyxa ledi complex and related rust fungi on spruce and Ericaceae in North America and Europe. Can. J. Bot. 79:957–982.
3. Cao, Jing; Tian, Chengming; Liang, Yingmei; You, Chongjuan (2017). "Two new Chrysomyxa rust species on the endemic plant, Picea asperata in western China, and expanded description of C. succinea". Phytotaxa. 292 (3): 218–230. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.292.3.2. ISSN 1179-3163.