Table 1.
Morphological character recognized in uredinial and telial stages in this study.
Fig 1.
Qualitative morphological characteristics recognized in this study.
(A) Urediniospores with a smooth apex. (B) Urediniospores without a smooth apex. (C) Uredinia with intermixed paraphyses. (D) Uredinia without intermixed paraphyses. (E) Urediniospores with echinulate type 1 spines. (F) Urediniospores with echinulate type 2 spines. (G) Urediniospores with echinulate type 3 spines. (H) Urediniospores with biozonate germ pores. (I) Urediniospores with scattered germ pores. (J) Paraphyses with evenly thickened membranes. (K) Paraphyses with an apparently thickened apex. (L) Subepidermal teliospores. (M) Subepidermal or subcuticular teliospores. (N) Subcuticular teliospores. Bars: A, H, J, K, M, N = 20 mm; B, F, G, I = 10 mm; C = 50 μm; D = 60 μm; E = 5 μm; L = 30 μm.
Fig 2.
Dendrogram resulting from 14 morphological characteristics of 137 Melampsora specimens on willows.
The specimens were divided into 22 groups (M1 to M22) based on the similarities of these characteristics. Based on a hierarchical clustering analysis using a divisive method, each branch was divided based on the morphological characteristics indicated on the node.
Fig 3.
Phylogenetic trees of the combined data of the rDNA ITS regions and D1/D2 regions obtained from parsimony analysis.
Bayesian posterior probabilities (Bpp) were given immediately followed by the bootstrap values from MP and ML on the nodes in the topology. Asterisks (*) represent bootstrap values less than 50% or Bpp less than 0.75 in the topology. The first column depicts species recognized by the single-threshold GMYC model, and the second column depicts putative species recognized by multiple-threshold model. The third column depicts morphological species recognized by numerical taxonomy.
Fig 4.
Continuous part of the phylogenetic trees of the combined data from the rDNA ITS regions and D1/D2 regions obtained from parsimony analysis.