1. PaDIL Species Factsheet Scientific Name: Cerotelium fici (E.J. Butler) Arthur (Basidiomycota: Pucciniomycotina: Pucciniomycetes: Pucciniales: Phakopsoraceae) Common Name Cerotelium fici Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/143006 Image Library New Zealand Biosecurity Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/ Partners for New Zealand Biosecurity image library Landcare Research — Manaaki Whenua http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/ MPI (Ministry for Primary Industries) http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/ 2. Species Information 2.1. Details Specimen Contact: Eric McKenzie - [email protected] Author: McKenzie, E. Citation: McKenzie, E. (2013) Cerotelium fici(Cerotelium fici)Updated on 3/20/2014 Available online: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au Image Use: Free for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY- NC 4.0) 2.2. URL Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/143006 2.3. Facets Commodity Overview: Field Crops and Pastures Commodity Type: Figs & Breadfruit Distribution: Oceania Groups: Fungi & Mushrooms Host Family: Moraceae Pest Status: 1 NZ - Non-regulated species Status: NZ - Exotic 2.4. Other Names Kuehneola fici E.J. Butler Uredo fici Cast. 2.5. Diagnostic Notes **Disease** Leaf rust. Uredinial pustules mainly hypophyllous and on fruit, scattered or sometimes tending to be grouped around edge of leaf or in dew-drop runs on lamina, very pale reddish brown, often on reddish brown angular leaf spots (corresponding brown spots on upper surface coalescing and becoming necrotic), pulverulent, circular, up to 0.5 mm diam. Infected plants shed foliage prematurely, leaving immature fruit on the tree. **Morphology** _Aecia_ not known. _Uredinia_ mainly hypopohyllous, scattered, pale coloured or pinkish, containing a few inconspicuous, hyaline, thin-walled, cylindric to slightly clavate paraphyses. _Urediniospores_ (19.5–)24–30(–35) × (14–)16–20(–22) µm, globose, obovoid, ellipsoidal or angular, wall 0.5–1 µm thick, very pale lemon or hyaline, contents hyaline, sparsely echinulate, germ pores obscure, (3–?4) and equatorial. _Telia_ (rare and have been described only twice), hypophyllous on reddish brown spots, scattered, minute, golden, subepidermal then erumpent. _Teliospores_ 14–22 × 10–13 µm, in loose chains of 2–7, barrel- shaped, oblong or ovoid, wall hyaline, smooth. 2.6. References - Hiratsuka, N., Sato, S., Katsuya, K., Kakishima, M., Hiratsuka, Y., Kaneko, S., Ono, Y., Sato, T., Harada, Y., Hiratsuka, T. & Nakayama, K. (1992). _The Rust Flora of Japan_. Tsukuba Shuppankai, Ibariki, Japan, p. 307. - Laundon, G.F. & Rainbow, A.F. (1971). _Cerotelium fici. CMI Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria No. 281_, 1–2. 3. Diagnostic Images Fig trees infected with Cerotelium fici, which Fig trees infected with Cerotelium fici, which is causing early leaf fall is causing early leaf fall In Life: E. McKenzie Landcare Research In Life: E. McKenzie Landcare Research Cerotelium fici uredinia on lower surface of Cerotelium fici symptoms on upper surface leaf of leaf In Life: E. McKenzie Landcare Research In Life: E. McKenzie Landcare Research Results Generated: Monday, September 27, 2021 .