| 释义 |
‖ Puccinia Bot.|pʌkˈsɪnɪə|
[Named after T. Puccini, an Italian anatomist.]
A large genus of minute parasitic fungi, N.O. Uredineæ, the species of which are heterœcious. The best-known species, P. graminis, grows as an æcidium on the leaves of the barberry, and its spores produce the Uredo or rust on wheat, rye, oats, and grass.
1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. II. 210 A small fungus, the Bramble Puccinia. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 247 The second form of fruit [produced upon the leaves of Berberis] was at one time considered a distinct genus of Fungi, and described under the name of æcidium; but this term is now only used to designate a particular form of fruit in the cycle of development of Puccinia.
Hence ˈpuccinoid a., allied in form to Puccinia.
1874Cooke Fungi 201 The æcidium which from the same disc produces the puccinoid resting spores. |