| Name | Puccinia asteris var. purpurascens Cooke & Peck |
| Authorship | Cooke & Peck |
| Rank | Variety |
| Placed in | Puccinia asteris Duby |
| Citation | 1873 Rep. (Annual) New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 25: 118 |
| Holdings | 2 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Puccinia asteris var. purpurascens Cooke & Peck |
| Identification made in | [no date] (2) |