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Fallopia convolvulus (L.) A.Love (Black-bindweed)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Fallopia convolvulus Plant 17 September 1977 South-west Yorkshire England 1
Fallopia convolvulus Plant 6 September 1971 East Sussex England 1
Fallopia convolvulus Plant 3 August 1971 South Devon England 1

Suggested Literature

General Works

Kurose, D., Renals, T., Shaw, R., Furuya, N., Takagi, M. & Evans, H., 2006 Fallopia japonica, an increasingly intractable weed problem in the UK: Can fungi help cut through this Gordian knot?

Fallopia convolvulus may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
POLYGONACEAE
(docks and knotgrasses)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Fallopia convolvulus:

(live) live is parasitised by Peronospora polygoni - a downy mildew (Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by Peronospora polygoni-convolvuli - a downy mildew (Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by uredium Puccinia polygoni-amphibii var. convolvuli - a rust fungus (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 polygoni-amphibii var. convolvuli - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
flower (live, swollen) live, swollen flower is galled by sorus Bauhinus anomalus - a smut fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by epiphyllous, immersed pycnidium Septoria polygonorum - a leaf-spot fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes fawn spots 2-6mm diam., with purplish borders]
ovary (live) live ovary may be infected and damaged by sorus Bauhinus anomalus - a smut fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
ovary (live) live ovary may be infected and damaged by sorus Sphacelotheca hydropiperis - a ustilaginomycete fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Fallopia convolvulus may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
POLYGONACEAE
(docks and knotgrasses)
Fallopia
(a genus of knotweeds)

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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