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Luzula sylvatica (Hudson) Gaudin (Great Wood-rush)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Luzula sylvatica Plant 5 May 2003 Berks England 11 10

Suggested Literature

Luzula sylvatica may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
JUNCACEAE
(rushes and wood-rushes)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Luzula sylvatica:

Photos (live) live is parasitised by telium Puccinia obscura - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos (live) live is spotted by mostly hypophyllous uredium Puccinia obscura - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [cause purplish brown spots]
leaf (base) (dead) dead leaf (base) is decayed by short-stalked apothecium Lachnum luzulinum - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (base) (dead) dead leaf (base) is decayed by apothecium Orbilia luzularum - a glasscup (Orbiliaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by thyriothecium Lembosia luzulae - an ascomycete (Asterinaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by immersed pseudothecium Phaeosphaeria epicalamia - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by clypeate perithecium Anthostomella fuegiana - a pyrenomycete (Xylariales: Xylariaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by fruitbody Mycena pterigena - a bonnet (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf (dying) dying leaf is decayed by crowded pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph Septoria minuta - a leaf-spot fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (in mine at base) (over-wintered) over-wintered leaf (in mine at base) may house puparium Cerodontha silvatica - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Restricted
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by crowded pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph Septoria minuta - a leaf-spot fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (over-wintering) over-wintering leaf is mined by larva Cerodontha silvatica - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Restricted Gibbs, D., 2003
leaf (withered) withered leaf is decayed by amphigenous, scattered or in rows, immersed pycnidium of Stagonospora coelomycetous anamorph Stagonospora luzulae - a coelomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf is mined by larva Cerodontha luzulae - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Restricted Bland, K.P., 1993
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by immersed pseudothecium Phaeosphaeria epicalamia - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dry, dead) dry, dead stem is decayed by gregarious, stromatic perithecium Stioclettia luzulina - an ascomycete (Diaporthales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dry, dead) dry, dead stem is decayed by stroma Stioclettia luzulina - an ascomycete (Diaporthales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Luzula sylvatica may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
JUNCACEAE
(rushes and wood-rushes)
Luzula
(wood-rushes)

References

Bland, K.P., 1993 Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) luzulae (Groschke, 1957) (Diptera: Agromyzidae) - a species new to Britain
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Gibbs, D., 2003 Cerodontha silvatica (Groschke, 1957) (Diptera, Agromyzidae) new to Britain
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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