Melampsoraceae

prop. n.

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A natural family of rust fungi.

Thesaurus

Noun

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Melampsoraceae - rust fungi family Melampsoraceae fungus family - includes lichen families order Uredinales, Uredinales - rust fungi: parasitic fungi causing rust in plants; sometimes placed in genus Melampsora, Melampsora - rusts having sessile one-celled teliospores in a single layer Cronartium, genus Cronartium - rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns