Gymnosporangium gracile

On a small living branch of Juniperus oxycedrus.

This study corresponds to the telial stage of the species.

Teliospores with a long hyaline pedicel, fusiform with rounded ends, thin-walled, with a prominent central septum (two-celled), and with brownish-ochraceous intracellular pigment.

These teliospores generate the basidia, which in turn produce the basidiospores.

Basidiospores ovoid to oblong, hyaline, thin-walled, with an eccentric apiculus at one end and faint granular internal content.