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Apium nodiflorum (L.) Lag. (Fool’s Water-cress)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Apium nodiflorum Plant 16 June 2000 Berks England 3

Suggested Literature

Apium nodiflorum may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
APIACEAE
(umbellifers - formerly Umbelliferae)
Apium
(fool's water-cresses, marshworts & celeries)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Apium nodiflorum:

is foodplant of Hypera adspersa - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by colony Burenia inundata - an ascomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes inconspicuous brownish blisters up to 1mm diam]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by immersed sorus Entyloma helosciadii - a smut fungus (Entylomatales: Entylomataceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [discoloured spots]
leaf leaf is mined by larva Euleia heraclei - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland White, I.M., 1988

Apium nodiflorum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
APIACEAE
(umbellifers - formerly Umbelliferae)
Apium
(fool's water-cresses, marshworts & celeries)

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
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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