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Golden Currant

Ribes aureum var. villosum DC.

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Foodplant / parasite
hypophyllous telium of Cronartium ribicola parasitises leaf of Ribes odoratum
Remarks: season: 7-10

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Foodplant / feeds on
scattered to subconfluent, erumpent, plurilocular stroma of Rabenhorstia coelomycetous anamorph of Phomatospora ribesia feeds on twig (slender) of Ribes odoratum

Fungus / parasite
Podosphaera mors-uvae parasitises Ribes odoratum

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Comprehensive Description

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Ribes odoratum Wendl. in Bartl. & Wendl. Beitr. 2 : 15. 1825
Ribes longiflorum Nutt. ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 2 : sub/>/. 725, as synonym. 1816.
Ribes aureuni villosum Berland. M^m. Soc. Geneve 3^ : 60. 1826.
Ribes fiavum Colla, M^m. Accad. Torino 33 : 114. 1828. Not R.flavum Berland. 1826.
Ribes aureum praecox Lindl. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7 : 240. 1828.
Ribes palmatum Thory, Monog. Gen. Gros. 28. 1829.
Ribes fragrans Lodd. Bot. Cab. pi. 1533. 1829. Not R.fragrans Pall. 1797.
Chrysobolrya revoluia Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 4 ; 19. 1835.
Ribes Orf^oret Herincq, Hortic. Fr. 1872: 227. pi. 8. 1872.
Ribes aureum melanococcum Jancz. M€m. Soc. Geneve 35 : 334. 1907.
A shrub 2 m. high or less, the bark of old branches gray, the young shoots pubescent. Leaves firm in texture, ovate to reniform-orbicular in outline, cuneate to truncate at the base, 2-5 cm. broad, deeply 3-5-lobed and coarsely dentate or crenate-dentate, glabrate on both sides, mostly longer than the pubescent petioles ; racemes mostly 4-8-flowered, as long as the leaves or longer, the rachis pubescent; bracts ovate to oval, foliaceous, longer than the pubescent or rarely glabrous pedicels, the lower sometimes 1.5 cm. long; hypanthium 12-15 mm. long; sepals oblong, 5-6 mm. long; petals 2-3 mm. long, lobed or erose; berry black, globose to oval, about 8 mm. in diameter.
Type locality : North America, near the Missouri River.
Distribution : In the Great Plains from South Dakota to Texas ; frequently escaped from cultivation elsewhere. ^.
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Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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