Puccinia hydrocotyles Cooke

on Hydrocotyle bonariensis Comm. ex Lam. Panama, Chiriqui Province, Boquete, 8°46.691'N, 82°25.968'W, 26 Nov. 2004, leg. J.R. Hernandez and M. Vega Rios 2004-124, III (BPI 864128).

P. hydrocotyles was reported from the Americas, Africa, Asia,andOceaniaonspeciesofHydrocotyle (Farr et al. 2004). This is the first report of P. hydrocotyles from Panama and confirms the tentative record in Piepenbring et al. (2002).