Puccinia sessilis
Spermogonia epigenous or hypogenous amongst the aecia, reddish-yellow to brown.
Aecia hypogenous, loosely clustered or sometimes circinate, in rounded groups on circular or irregular large yellow spots, cup-shaped with a laciniate white recurved peridium, peridial cells firmly connected, not in distinct rows, with the punctate outer wall strongly thickened, to 8-10 µm thick and the inner wall to 3-5 µm, with small warts. Aeciospores 18-27 µm diam., globose or ellipsoidal, yellowish, the wall thin, very finely verruculose.
Uredinia amphigenous, scattered, minute, punctiform or shortly linear, soon naked, pulverulent, yellowish-brown, without paraphyses. Urediniospores 20-28 x 18-24 µm, globose to ellipsoidal, brownish yellow, the wall distantly echinulate, with about 7 scattered pores.
Telia similar to the uredinia, sometimes confluent, long covered by the epidermis, pulvinate, black. Teliospores 35-52 x 15-22 µm, cylindrical to cylindric-clavate, rounded or truncate and darker above, hardly constricted, somewhat narrowed below, brown, the wall smooth, to 5µm thick at the apex, the pedicel short, brown, usually deciduous.
Common and widespread, and certainly not threatened.
Aecia and spermogonia are on living leaves of Arum maculatum, uredinia and telia on Phalaris arundinacea. Records of aecia have been recorded on other host plants (mostly Orchidaceae), but these may belong to cryptic taxa.
Throughout the British Isles.