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Ranunculus lingua L. (Greater Spearwort)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Ranunculus lingua Plant 22 May 2000 Berks England 1

Suggested Literature

Ranunculus lingua may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Ranunculus
(buttercups and crowfoots)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Ranunculus lingua:

(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia magnusiana - 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
is parasitised by Erysiphe aquilegiae var. ranunculi - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by hypophyllous, in small groups aecium Puccinia magnusiana - 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 [causes round yellowish spots]
leaf (upper surface) (windowed) windowed leaf (upper surface) is grazed by adult Donacia aquatica - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007
Photos leaf leaf is mined by larva Phytomyza ranunculi - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972 [frass grains close together, often connected in strings or strips]

Ranunculus lingua may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
RANUNCULACEAE
(buttercups, crowfoots)
Ranunculus
(buttercups and crowfoots)

References

Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae

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