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Clinopodium vulgare L. (Wild Basil)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Clinopodium vulgare Plant 24 July 2001 Oxon England 5
Clinopodium vulgare Plant 17 July 1971 East Sussex England 2

Suggested Literature

Clinopodium vulgare may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Clinopodium vulgare:

(live) live is parasitised by aecium Puccinia menthae - Mint Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia menthae - Mint Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by uredium Puccinia menthae - Mint Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by telium Puccinia menthae - Mint Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
is foodplant of larva Meligethes bidens - a pollen beetle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
leaf leaf is mined by larva Phytomyza obscura - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Restricted Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine beginning with small spiral, later developing into a greenish blotch, brown when old]
stem (lower) stem (lower) may contain larva Apion flavimanum - a seed weevil (Coleoptera: Apionidae) Questionable Morris, M.G., 1990
stem (near a node) stem (near a node) may house puparium Ophiomyia labiatarum - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972
stem stem is mined by larva Ophiomyia labiatarum - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972 [inconspicuous mine]

Clinopodium vulgare may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
LAMIACEAE
(dead-nettles, mints and scented herbs - formerly Labiatae)
Clinopodium
(calamints)

References

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
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
Morris, M.G., 1990 Orthocerous Weevils
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae

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