Chrysomyxa ledicola

Chrysomyxa ledicola
	Chrysomyxa ledicola as "orange goo" in Kivalina, Alaska
Conservation status
	Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Pucciniomycetes
Order:	Pucciniales
Family:	Coleosporiaceae
Genus:	Chrysomyxa
Species:	C. ledicola
Binomial name
	Chrysomyxa ledicola; Lagerh. 1893

Chrysomyxa ledicola is a plant pathogen responsible for the disease large-spored spruce-Labrador tea rust. It affects white spruce, black spruce, Sitka spruce, Englemann spruce, and Labrador-tea.^[2] It is also the cause of the orange goo that covered the Iñupiat village of Kivalina, Alaska in the summer of 2011.^[3]

References

^ "Chrysomyxa ledicola". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017. Archived from the original on 9 October 2008. Retrieved 27 September 2017. This taxon has not yet been assessed for the IUCN Red List, but is in the Catalogue of Life: Chrysomyxa ledicola Lagerh., 1893
^ "CTD — Conifer Rust Fungi: Large-Spored Spruce-Labrador Tea Rust". Common Tree Diseases of British Columbia. British Columbia: Canadian Forest Service. 30 December 2011. Archived from the original on 11 March 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012. The aecial hosts of Chrysomyxa ledicola in B.C. include white, black, Sitka, and Englemann spruce. The telial hosts are Labrador-tea and northern Labrador-tea.
^ "Alaska "Orange Goo" Rust Spores Confirmed". NCCOS News. National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. 9 February 2012. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012. An "orange goo" covered the Inupiat village of Kivalina, Alaska last summer. Six months later the substance was confirmed by forestry experts at the USDA Forest Service and the Canadian Forest Service to be rust fungi uredospores of Chrysomyxa ledicola.

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