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Persicaria bistorta (L.) Samp. (Common Bistort)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Persicaria bistorta Plant 17 June 1974 Mid-west Yorkshire England 1

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos
Forma Persicaria bistorta (floating-leaved form) 5

Suggested Literature

Persicaria bistorta may 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)
Persicaria
(knotweeds)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Persicaria bistorta:

bulbil (live, swollen) live, swollen bulbil is galled by sorus Bauhinus bistortarum - a smut fungus (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
flower (live, swollen) live, swollen flower is galled by sorus Bauhinus bistortarum - a smut fungus (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 (live) live leaf is parasitised by Ramularia anamorph Ramularia bistortae - an anamorphic fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by embedded sorus Bauhinus pustulatus - a smut fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) Foreign Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by embedded sorus Bauhinus pustulatus - a smut fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
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]
leaf margin (inrolled, silvery then brown) inrolled, silvery then brown leaf margin may be infected and damaged by embedded sorus Bauhinus marginalis - a smut fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) UK/Ireland Restricted Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Puccinia bistortae - 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
leaf leaf is parasitised by uredium Puccinia bistortae - 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
Photos stem (dead, lying in water) dead, lying in water stem is decayed by stalked apothecium Hymenoscyphus scutula - a discomycete (Helotiales: Helotiaceae) Questionable

Persicaria bistorta may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
POLYGONACEAE
(docks and knotgrasses)
Persicaria
(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
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006 Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi

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