Kingdom Fungi Class Pucciniomycetes Family Coleosporiaceae Rank Species | Division Basidiomycota Order Pucciniales Genus Chrysomyxa | |
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Similar Chrysomyxa, Spruce broom rust, Chrysomyxa weirii, Chrysomyxa ledi var rhododendri, Pucciniastrum | ||
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. It is also the cause of the orange goo that covered the Inupiat village of Kivalina, Alaska in the summer of 2011.
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