Symptomatic leaves with numerous rust sori on the underside were collected and examined. The urediniospores were mostly brown, ellipsoidal, finely echinulate, variable in size (20.6-26.2 × 19.3-21.8 µm), with brown walls (1.2-1.9 µm thick) and often with two equatorial germ pores (Figure 4). No teliospores were found. Based on urediniospore morphology, the pathogen was identified tentatively as Puccinia arachidis (Mondal & Badigannavar, 2015). Puccinia arachidis is known almost exclusively by its uredinial stage. The telial stage has only been reported from Central America, Florida, and Brazil on leaves of wild peanut (Hennen et al., 1976) and more recently from cultivated peanut in India (Tashildar et al., 2012).