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Fallopia japonica (Houtt.) Ronse Decraene (Japanese Knotweed)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Fallopia japonica Plant 17 August 2002 North Wiltshire England 11 7

Suggested Literature

Fallopia japonica 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)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Fallopia japonica:

is decayed by erumpent apothecium Pirottaea nigrostriata - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous aecium Puccinia phragmitis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Foreign Kurose, D., Renals, T., Shaw, R., Furuya, N., Takagi, M. & Evans, H., 2006 [in Japan]
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by uredium Puccinia polygoni-amphibii var. tovariae (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Foreign Kurose, D., Renals, T., Shaw, R., Furuya, N., Takagi, M. & Evans, H., 2006 [in Japan]
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by telium Puccinia polygoni-amphibii var. tovariae (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Foreign Kurose, D., Renals, T., Shaw, R., Furuya, N., Takagi, M. & Evans, H., 2006 [in Japan]
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by Mycosphaerella - a genus of ascomycetes (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Foreign Kurose, D., Renals, T., Shaw, R., Furuya, N., Takagi, M. & Evans, H., 2006 [in Japan]
rootstock (dead) dead rootstock is decayed by fruitbody Hemimycena delectabilis - a toadstool (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Dictyosporium dematiaceous anamorph Dictyosporium toruloides - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by usually immersed pseudothecium Lophiostoma vagabundum - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Lophiostomataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Helminthosporium dematiaceous anamorph Helminthosporium velutinum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Pleosporales: Pleomassariaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by colony of Dendryphion dematiaceous anamorph Dendryphion comosum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Pleosporales: Pleosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by apothecium Pyrenopeziza revincta - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Pseudospiropes dematiaceous anamorph Strossmayeria atriseda - a discomycete (Helotiales: Helotiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by erumpent apothecium Hyaloscypha effugiens - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by colony of Phragmocephala dematiaceous anamorph Phragmocephala atra - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Phragmocephala dematiaceous anamorph Phragmocephala elliptica - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Pleurophragmium dematiaceous anamorph Pleurophragmium parvisporum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by immersed perithecium Diaporthe pardalota - a pyrenomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by scattered or in small groups perithecium Gibberella cyanogena - a pyrenomycete (Hypocreales: Nectriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by colony of Menispora dematiaceous anamorph Chaetosphaeria ovoidea - a pyrenomycete (Sordariales: Chaetosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Endophragmiella dematiaceous anamorph Endophragmiella biseptata - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Sordariales: Lasiosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Endophragmiella dematiaceous anamorph Endophragmiella boewei - a dematiaceous anamophic fungus (Sordariales: Lasiosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Endophragmiella dematiaceous anamorph Endophragmiella cesatii - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Sordariales: Lasiosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by sclerotium-like pycnidium of Chaetoconis coelomycetous anamorph Ceriospora polygonacearum - an ascomycete fungus (Xylariales: Hyponectriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by immersed, pseudothecial stroma Ceriospora polygonacearum - an ascomycete fungus (Xylariales: Hyponectriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Torula dematiaceous anamorph Torula herbarum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by fruitbody Hyphodermella corrugata - a resupinate fungus (Polyporales: Phanerochaetaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by fruitbody Xenosperma ludibundum - a resupinate fungus (Polyporales: Xenasmataceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by hypophyllous fruitbody Efibulobasidium albescens - a jelly fungus (Tremellales: Exidiaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos stem (dead, decayed) dead, decayed stem is decayed by fruitbody Mycena arcangeliana - Angel's Bonnet (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem (dead, dry, hard) dead, dry, hard stem is decayed by superficial, often in very large clusters pseudothecium Melanomma pulvis-pyrius - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Melanommataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead, dry, hard) dead, dry, hard stem is decayed by superficial pycnidium of Aposphaeria coelomycetous anamorph Melanomma pulvis-pyrius - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Melanommataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead, epidermis blackened) dead, epidermis blackened stem is decayed by immersed conidioma of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph Phomopsis polygonorum - a coelomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead, patchily blackened) dead, patchily blackened stem is decayed by effuse colony of Periconia dematiaceous anamorph Periconia byssoides - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos stem (old, dead) old, dead stem is decayed by fruitbody Peniophora incarnata - Rosy Crust (Russulales: Peniophoraceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Fallopia japonica may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
POLYGONACEAE
(docks and knotgrasses)
Fallopia
(a genus of knotweeds)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Kurose, D., Renals, T., Shaw, R., Furuya, N., Takagi, M. & Evans, H., 2006 Fallopia japonica, an increasingly intractable weed problem in the UK: Can fungi help cut through this Gordian knot?
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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