Uromycladium tepperianum

Uromycladium tepperianum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Pucciniomycetes
Order:
Pucciniales
Family:
Pileolariaceae
Genus:
Uromycladium
Species:
U. tepperianum
Binomial name
Uromycladium tepperianum
(Sacc.) McAlpine (1906)
Synonyms
  • Uromyces tepperianus Sacc. (1889)
  • Coeomurus tepperianus (Sacc.) Kuntze (1898)

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. 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.

Uromycladium tepperianum is differentiated from other species of Uromycladium by the presence of three one-celled fertile teliospores on the pedicel.

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