TY -JOUR AU -Yuan-Min Shen AU -Tung-Chin Huang AU -Wen-Hsin Chung and Ting-Hsuan Hung TI -Characterization of Aecidium deutziae, a rust fungus on Deutzia pulchra in Taiwan PY -2016 DA -2016-06-04 JO -Taiwania VL -61 IS -2 SP -172 EP -174 UR -https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/1453 AB -The first and only one recorded collection of Aecidium deutziae in Taiwan was collected by Y. Hashioka on Deutzia pulchra in 1933 without taxonomical description. For characterization of this rust fungus, A. deutziae on D. pulchra again collected near Tataka, Nantou, Taiwan in 2015, was studied. The fungus produced amphigenous spermogonia and cupulate, mainly hypophyllous aecia. The peridial cells have smooth outer wall and verrucose inner walls. Aeciospores are pale orange, globose to broadly ellipsoidal, minutely verrucose with granules. In addition, the DNA sequences covering the LSU, ITS and SSU rDNA regions were obtained. DO -10.6165/tai.2016.61.172