“…Puccinia psidii is a biotrophic fungus (Basidiomycota, Pucciniales) native from South America and the Caribbean region, with its wide natural geographical distribution including Brazil (Grillo, ; Jackson, ; Pickel, ; Thurston, ; Vellozo, Nowacki, & Vernalha, ; Winter, ), Uruguay (Spegazzini, ), Puerto Rico (Arthur, ), Paraguay (Spegazzini, ), Ecuador (Stevenson, ), Colombia (Kern & Chardón, ), Dominican Republic (Kern, ), Venezuela (Chardon & Toro, ), Argentina (Di Fonzo, ), Jamaica (Smith, ), Barbados and Windward Islands (Baker & Dale, ), and Trinidad and Tobago (Baker & Dale, ). In addition, this disease has been reported in many parts of the world such as the United States (Marlatt & Kimbrough, ; Mellano, ; Rayachhetry, Elliot, & Van, ; Uchida, Zhong, & Killgore, ; Zambino & Nolan, ), Mexico (Gallegos & Cummins, ), Japan (Kawanishi et al., ), Australia (Carnegie et al., ), China (Zhuang & Wei, ), South Africa (Roux, Greyling, Coutinho, Verleur, & Wingfield, ), New Caledonia (Giblin, ), Colombia (Rodas et al., ) and Indonesia (McTaggart et al., ).…”