''Uromyces musae'' is a fungal species and plant pathogen infecting

banana A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus '' Musa''. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing the ...

s. It was found originally on the leaves of ''

Musa Musa may refer to: Places *Mūša, a river in Lithuania and Latvia * Musa, Azerbaijan, a village in Yardymli Rayon * Musa, Iran, a village in Ilam province, Iran * Musa, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran * Musa Kalayeh, Gilan province, Iran * Abu M ...

'' species in the

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, Africa. It is described as forming rusty-brown to almost black, erumpent (bursting through a surface or covering) and partially linear pustules, mostly on the lower leaf surface of the host plant. It is found in south west

Pacific region The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

, except from the Congo and Nigeria in Africa. It is found in the Philippines, Fiji and also

Wallis Island Wallis () is a Polynesian atoll/island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity (''collectivité d'outre-mer'', or ''COM'') of Wallis and Futuna. It lies north of Tonga, northeast of Fiji, east-northeast of the Hoorn ...

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Index Fungorum

USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases Banana diseases musae Fungi described in 1907 Fungus species {{Teliomycotina-stub