Mehrdad Abbasi - Department of Botany, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran.

A checklist for all known Iranian rust fungi including composition and distribution of the taxa was prepared. In the present checklist of Iranian Pucciniales, ۴۷۰ rust taxa on ۱۱۳۳ vascular plants belonging to ۶۰ plant families are recorded, making ۱۶۰۴ rust-host combinations. The presented data is based on ۲۳۴ publications and the author’s surveys.

biodiversity, plant pathology, mycobiota, Uredinales