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Persicaria lapathifolia (L.) Gray (Pale Persicaria)

Suggested Literature

Persicaria lapathifolia 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 lapathifolia:

(live) live is parasitised by cleistothecium Erysiphe polygoni - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
(live) live is parasitised by conidial anamorph Erysiphe polygoni - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
is foodplant of larva Phytobius quadricorniger - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
flower (live, swollen, deformed) live, swollen, deformed flower is galled by embedded sorus Bauhinus reticulatus - a smut fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) UK/Ireland Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
ovary (live) live ovary may be infected and damaged by embedded sorus Bauhinus reticulatus - a smut fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
ovary (live) live ovary may be infected and damaged by sorus Sphacelotheca hydropiperis - a ustilaginomycete fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Persicaria lapathifolia 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

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
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
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006 Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi

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