Cedar Quince Rust
Gymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck
Cedar Quince Rust: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/15020
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This species causes flaky swellings on the branches of Eastern Redcedar before infecting the fruit of the quince in the spring (L. Biechele, pers. comm.).

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Gymnosporangium clavipes
A cedar-quince rust canker on a hawthorn branch
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Pucciniomycetes
Order: Pucciniales
Family: Gymnosporangiaceae
Genus: Gymnosporangium
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G. clavipes
Binomial name
Gymnosporangium clavipes
Cooke & Peck, (1873)
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Gymnosporangium germinale F. Kern, (1908)

Gymnosporangium clavipes is a plant pathogen, a fungus that causes cedar-quince rust. Similar to Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae and Gymnosporangium globosum, the fungus infects a wide range of Rosaceae, such as apple, hawthorn and quince trees, and also requires an evergreen host such as eastern red cedar or a number of other juniper species to complete its life cycle.[1]

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  1. ^ James Schuster, Cedar-Quince Rust. Accessed July 16, 2008.
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