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Uredinopsis

noun
Uredi·nop·sis | \-ˈäpsə̇s\

Definition of Uredinopsis 

: a genus of rusts that is related to Melampsora and has solitary sessile teliospores formed within the mesophyll of the leaves of the host

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New Latin, from uredinium + -opsis

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