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Hemileia
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Hemileia

Hemileia is a genus of rust fungi, now placed in the family Zaghouaniaceae, but long considered incertae sedis in the order Pucciniales. This genus has a pan-tropical distribution and includes important crop plant pathogens, such as the causative organism of coffee leaf rust.

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7 branches of this genus, most-observed first

coffee rust fungus

speciesHemileia vastatrix

Hemileia gardeniae-thunbergiae

speciesHemileia gardeniae-thunbergiae

Hemileia woodii

speciesHemileia woodii

Hemileia ritscheliae

speciesHemileia ritscheliae

Hemileia ectadiopsidis

speciesHemileia ectadiopsidis

Hemileia fadogiae

speciesHemileia fadogiae

Hemileia scholzii

speciesHemileia scholzii

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 328342.