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Stellaria uliginosa Murray (Bog Stitchwort)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Stellaria uliginosa 18 May 2004 South Devon England 5
Stellaria uliginosa Plant 25 May 1974 Mid-west Yorkshire England 1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Lansdown R.V. & Pankhurst T.J. Privately published
Poland, J., 2007 Maddening Mimics: a belated reply

Stellaria uliginosa 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)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Stellaria uliginosa:

Photos anther (live) live anther may be infected and damaged by embedded sorus Microbotryum stellariae - Chickweed Anther Smut (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph Ascochyta stellariae - a coelomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (fading) fading leaf is parasitised by pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph Ascochyta stellariae - a coelomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Puccinia arenariae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Hypera diversipunctata - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) UK/Ireland Morris, M.G., 2002
stem (lower parts) (living) living stem (lower parts) is parasitised by solitary or in small groups, stipitate apothecium Lanzia stellariae - a discomycete (Helotiales: Rutstroemiaceae) UK/Ireland Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Stellaria uliginosa may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
CARYOPHYLLACEAE
(chickweeds, stitchworts and campions)
Stellaria
(chickweeds)

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
Morris, M.G., 2002 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006 Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi

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