Uromycladium tepperianum
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| Uromycladium tepperianum | |
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Pucciniomycetes |
| Order: | Pucciniales |
| Family: | Pileolariaceae |
| Genus: | Uromycladium |
| Species: | U. tepperianum |
| Binomial name | |
| Uromycladium tepperianum | |
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Uromycladium tepperianum is a rust fungus that infects over 100 species of Acacia and related genera including Paraserianthes in Australia, south-east Asia, the south Pacific and New Zealand.[2][3][4][5] The acacia gall rust fungus species Uromycladium tepperianum has been introduced to South Africa as a biological control on the invasive Australian shrub Acacia saligna.[2][6]
Uromycladium tepperianum is differentiated from other species of Uromycladium by the presence of three one-celled fertile teliospores on the pedicel.[7][8]
