Rhamphospora nymphaeae D. D. Cunn. 1888

In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / parasite
embedded sorus of Rhamphospora nymphaeae parasitises live, floating leaf of Nymphaea alba

Entyloma nymphaeae (D. D. Cunn.) Setch. Bot. Gaz. 19 : 189. 1894
Rhamphospora Nymphaeae D. D. Cunn. Sci. Mem. Med. Off. Army India 3 : 32. 1888. Eniyloma Castaliae Holway ; Davis, Trans. Wise. Acad. 11 : 174. 1897. (Type from Wisconsin, on Nymphaea reniformis).
Sori in leaves, forming variable often very irregular areas, usually most prominent on under side, yellowish or with age reddish-brown, scattered or subconfluent ; spores hyaline, ovoid to subspherical, usually apiculate and with remains of hypha as an appendix at the opposite end, smooth or under an immersion very minutely verruculose, 10-14^ in length; conidia not observed but spores said to germinate in situ.
On Nymphaeaceae :
Casialia odorata {Nymphaea odorata), Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio.
Castalia tuberosa {Nymphaea reniformis^ ^ Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin.
Castalia {Nymphaea) sp., Iowa, New Jersey, Ohio.
Nymphaea advena {Nuphar advena), Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Wisconsin. Type locality : Calcutta, India (Botanical Garden), on Nymphaea stellata {Castalia stellata). Distribution : New England to Wisconsin and Iowa ; also in Europe and Asia.