Crossopsora piperis Berndt, F.O. Freire & C.N. Bastos, Mycotaxon 83: 266. 2002. Type on Piper hostmannianum (Miq.) C.DC., Marituba, Pará State, Brazil, 10.V.2001, C.N. Bastos s.n. (?/?, IIse, III). SPECIMENS EXAMINED— BRAZIL, RIO DE JANEIRO, Itatiaia, Parque Nacional de Itatiaia, on Piperaceae – Piper hispidum Sw., 07.XII.2015, II, A. Martins Junior, A.A. Carvalho Junior & A. Riguetti 84/15 (RB 757216); 21.III.2017, A. Martins Junior & A.A. Carvalho Junior 56/17 (RB 757141); 22.III.2017, II, III, 75/17 (RB 757171); on Piperaceae – Piper malacophyllum (C.Presl) C.DC., 20.III.2017, II, 07/17 (RB 757126). COMMENTS— Piper malacophyllum is recorded as new host species of C. piperis. DESCRIPTION AND ILLUSTRATION: Berndt et al. (2002) and Salazar-Yepes & Carvalho Jr (2010).

Published as part of Junior, Alcindo Da Silva Martins, Gomes, Paulo Weslem Portal, Sakuragui, Cássia Mônica & Junior, Aníbal Alves De Carvalho, 2022, Contributions to the knowledge and distribution of Pucciniales (rust fungi) in three Brazilian biomes, pp. 79-117 in Phytotaxa 577 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.577.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/7517579