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Juncus acutiflorus Ehrh. ex Hoffm. (Sharp-flowered Rush)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Juncus acutiflorus Plant 20 July 1997 Berks England 2
Juncus acutiflorus Plant 22 July 1979 Surrey England 1

Suggested Literature

Juncus acutiflorus may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
JUNCACEAE
(rushes and wood-rushes)
Juncus
(rushes)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Juncus acutiflorus:

inflorescence (dead) dead inflorescence is decayed by apothecium Cistella fugiens - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by apothecium Cistella fugiens - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (base) (live) live stem (base) is parasitised by inconspicuous sorus Urocystis junci - a smut fungus (Urocystales: Urocystaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by apothecium Cistella fugiens - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Juncus acutiflorus may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
JUNCACEAE
(rushes and wood-rushes)
Juncus
(rushes)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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