BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Melampyrum pratense L. (Common Cow-wheat)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Melampyrum pratense Plant 17 June 1974 (Yorks) England 1

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos
Subspecies Melampyrum pratense ssp. pratense (a common cow-wheat) 12

Suggested Literature

Melampyrum pratense 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 Melampyrum pratense:

(live) live is parasitised by Podosphaera fusca - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
(live) live is parasitised by uredium Coleosporium tussilaginis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Coleosporiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by telium Coleosporium tussilaginis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Coleosporiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia nemoralis - Cow-wheat Clustercup Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is swollen by epiphyllous aecium Puccinia nemoralis - Cow-wheat Clustercup Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [cause reddish-purple swollen areas. Plants prematurely blackened and with reduced number and and size of flowers.]

Melampyrum pratense may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews