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Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Spach (Water-pepper)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #macrophotos
Persicaria hydropiper Plant 28 August 1999 Berks England 20

Suggested Literature

Persicaria hydropiper 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 hydropiper:

is foodplant of larva Phytobius waltoni - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
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]
ovary (live) live ovary may be infected and damaged by sorus Ustilago cordae - 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) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
ovary (live, swollen, deformed) live, swollen, deformed ovary is galled by embedded sorus Bauhinus cordae - a smut fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) UK/Ireland Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Persicaria hydropiper 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
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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