EPPO Global Database

Austropuccinia psidii(PUCCPS)

Distribution details in Jamaica

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2006: Present, no details
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (1998/199) : an alert to this newly important pest.
References
* Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ, Alfenas AC, Crous PW (1998) Eucalyptus rust: A disease with the potential for serious international implications. Plant Disease 82(7), 819-825.

* Maclachlan JD (1938) A rust of the Pimento tree in Jamaica. B.W.I. Phytopathology 28 (3), 157-170.

* Simpson JA, Thomas K, Grgurinovic CA (2006) Uredinales species pathogenic on species of Myrtaceae. Australasian Plant Pathology 35 (5), 549-562 https://doi.org/10.1071/AP06057
------Observations of herbarium specimens collected in 1961