Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Bullaria tumidipes (Peck) Arth. Mycologia 8: 136. 1916
Puccinia tumidipes Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 12: 34! 1885. Dicaeoma tumidipes Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3 3 : 471. 1898.
Pycnia epiphyllous, in small groups, honey-yellow, becoming brownish, globoid or conic, 70-80 x in diameter; ostiolar filaments 30-40 m long.
II. Uredinia of the primary form grouped about the pycnia, otherwise similar to the secondary form; secondary uredinia amphigenous, scattered, round or elliptic, 0.3-1 mm. across, early naked, pulverulent, cinnamon-brown, ruptured epidermis conspicuous; urediniospores of both forms oblong, oblong-ellipsoid, or oblong-obovoid, 16-25 by 27-42 /*; wall cinnamon-brown, 1.5-2.5 fi thick, closely and rather prominently echinulate above, less conspicuously so or smooth below, the pores 8, in two transverse bands of 4 each, the upper superequatorial or sometimes equatorial, the lower subequatorial.
- bibliographic citation
- Joseph Charles Arthur, Edwin Butter worth Mains, Guy Richard Bisby, Herbert Spencer Jackson. 1922. (UREDINALES); AECIDIACEAE (continuatio); BULLARIA, TELEUTOSPORA, MICROPUCCINIA (pars). North American flora. vol 7(7). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY