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Dog's Mercury Rust

Melampsora populnea

532Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
44Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb4
Mar16
Apr180
May102
Jun21
Jul23
Aug38
Sep68
Oct41
Nov22
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England55
2Rutland England34
3Ceredigion Wales33
4Somerset England25
5Highland Scotland21
6Surrey England17
7Dorset England17
8Cambridgeshire England15
9Gloucestershire England15
10Worcestershire England14
11North Yorkshire England11
12Oxfordshire England10
13Bristol, City of England10
14Denbighshire Wales7
15Powys Wales6
350 England40 Scotland69 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 44 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
532
Peak month
April
Counties with records
44
Scientific name
Melampsora populnea
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
459
Most recorded in
Norfolk
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Pucciniomycetes
Order
Pucciniales
Family
Melampsoraceae
Genus
Melampsora
Name with authority
Melampsora populnea (Pers.) P.Karst.
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 9812051