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Carex acutiformis Ehrh. (Lesser Pond-sedge)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Carex acutiformis 30 April 2005 Berks England 3
Carex acutiformis 14 August 2004 Berks England 6
Carex acutiformis Plant 3 June 2000 Berks England 15
Carex acutiformis Plant 19 June 1997 Berks England 1

Suggested Literature

Carex acutiformis may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
CYPERACEAE
(cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges)
Carex
(sedges)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Carex acutiformis:

(dry, scorched or burnt) dry, scorched or burnt is decayed by effuse colony of Periconia dematiaceous anamorph Massarina igniaria - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Lophiostomataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos (live) live is parasitised by telium Puccinia urticata var. urticae-acutiformis - a nettle clustercup rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos (live) live is parasitised by uredium Puccinia urticata var. urticae-acutiformis - a nettle clustercup rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
fruit (old, blackened) old, blackened fruit is decayed by sporodochium of anamorph Ciboria aschersoniana - a discomycete (Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae) Questionable Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [in wet peaty places under cover of marsh vegetation]
fruit (old, blackened) old, blackened fruit is decayed by long stalked apothecium Ciboria aschersoniana - a discomycete (Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [in wet peaty places under cover of marsh vegetation]
glume glume is decayed by sessile apothecium Mollisia dactyligluma - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos inflorescence (live) live inflorescence is parasitised by sorus Farysia thuemenii - a smut fungus (Ustilaginales: Farysiaceae) UK/Ireland Questionable Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf (base) (dead) dead leaf (base) is decayed by apothecium Niptera pilosa - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by immersed pseudothecium Metasphaeria cumana f. macrospora - an ascomycete (Dothideales: Dothioraceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by immersed pseudothecium Didymella proximella - an ascomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by pycnidium of Stagonospora coelomycetous anamorph Stagonospora anglica - a coelomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by pycnidium of Stagonospora coelomycetous anamorph Stagonospora caricinella - a coelomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by pycnidium of Stagonospora coelomycetous anamorph Stagonospora caricis - a coelomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by pycnidium of Stagonospora coelomycetous anamorph Stagonospora macropycnidia - a coelomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by pycnidium of Stagonospora coelomycetous anamorph Stagonospora paludosa - a coelomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by superficial pseudothecium Acanthophiobolus helicosporus - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Tubeufiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by superficial pseudothecium Taphrophila cornu-capreoli - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Tubeufiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by Mirandina dematiaceous anamorph Taphrophila cornu-capreoli - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Tubeufiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by superficial, sessile, clypeate apothecium Micropeziza cornea - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by apothecium Lachnum carneolum var. longisporum - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by shortly stipitate apothecium Microscypha ellisii - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by apothecium Psilachnum eburneum - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by apothecium Psilachnum lateritioalbum - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by immersed pycnidium of Neottiospora coelomycetous anamorph Neottiospora caricina - a coelomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by colony of Periconia dematiaceous anamorph Periconia atra - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by colony of Periconia dematiaceous anamorph Periconia curta - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by colony of Periconia dematiaceous anamorph Periconia digitata - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by colony of Periconia dematiaceous anamorph Periconia funerea - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by effuse colony of Periconia dematiaceous anamorph Periconia laminella - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by effuse colony of Periconia dematiaceous anamorph Periconia minutissima - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by colony of Arthrinium dematiaceous anamorph Arthrinium phaeospermum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Apiosporaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by stalked, occasionally sessile sporodochium of Myrothecium dematiaceous anamorph Myrothecium cinctum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Hypocreales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by sporodochium of Volutella anamorph Volutella arundinis - an anamorphic fungus (Hypocreales: Nectriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by sporodochium of Volutella anamorph Volutella melaloma - an anamorphic fungus (Hypocreales: Nectriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by immersed perithecium Ceriophora palustris - a pyrenomycete (Xylariales: Hyponectriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by subclypeate perithecium Anthostomella limitata - a pyrenomycete (Xylariales: Xylariaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by immersed, clypeate perithecium Anthostomella punctulata - a pyrenomycete (Xylariales: Xylariaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead, dry) dead, dry leaf is decayed by immersed apothecium Phragmonaevia hysterioides - a discomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dry, dead) dry, dead leaf is decayed by effuse colony of Periconia dematiaceous anamorph Periconia hispidula - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dry, dead) dry, dead leaf is decayed by superficial perithecium Niesslia exosporioides - a pyrenomycete (Hypocreales: Niessliaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by immersed pycnidium of Phaeoseptoria coelomycetous anamorph Phaeoseptoria caricicola - a coelomycetous anamorphic fungus (Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes round or almost round, whitish, brown-bordered spots]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by immersed, clypeate pseudothecium Buergenerula biseptata - an ascomycete (Magnaporthaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes brown spots with bleached centres]
leaf (live, browning) live, browning leaf may be infected and damaged by extensive, hypophyllous, velvety colony of Clasterosporium dematiaceous anamorph Clasterosporium caricinum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Magnaporthaceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [mostly on plants subject to occasional flooding]
leaf (newly dead) newly dead leaf is decayed by sporodochium of Arthrinium dematiaceous anamorph Arthrinium sporophleum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Apiosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (often dry, bleached, dead) often dry, bleached, dead leaf is decayed by sporodochium of Arthrinium dematiaceous anamorph Arthrinium caricicola - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Apiosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (often dry, bleached, dead) often dry, bleached, dead leaf is decayed by sporodochium of Arthrinium dematiaceous anamorph Arthrinium puccinioides - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Apiosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (often dry, bleached, dead) often dry, bleached, dead leaf is decayed by amphigenous colony of Arthrinium dematiaceous anamorph Physalospora scirpi - a pyrenomycete (Xylariales: Hyponectriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
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 base (dead) dead leaf base is decayed by fruitbody Epithele typhae - a resupinete fungus (Polyporales: Epitheliaceae) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf base (dead, often reddened) dead, often reddened leaf base is decayed by subiculate apothecium Belonopsis asteroma - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf sheath (lower part) (dead) dead leaf sheath (lower part) may be infected and damaged by immersed, mycelial matted perithecium Gaeumannomyces graminis - Take-all Patch Disease (Causative Agent) (Magnaporthaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf-mine leaf-mine may house puparium Cerodontha eucaricis - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf leaf is mined by larva Cerodontha eucaricis - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Spencer, K.A., 1972
pollen pollen is foodplant of adult Donacia impressa - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Major Cox, M.L., 2007
pollen pollen is foodplant of adult Donacia thalassina - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Questionable Major Cox, M.L., 2007
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by pycnidium of Stagonospora coelomycetous anamorph Stagonospora paludosa - a coelomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by superficial, sessile, clypeate apothecium Micropeziza cornea - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by sessile apothecium Mollisia palustris - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by apothecium Psilachnum eburneum - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by colony of Periconia dematiaceous anamorph Periconia curta - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by colony of Periconia dematiaceous anamorph Periconia digitata - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Periconia dematiaceous anamorph Periconia laminella - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Periconia dematiaceous anamorph Periconia minutissima - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by colony of Arthrinium dematiaceous anamorph Arthrinium phaeospermum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Apiosporaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [may completely encircle stem and extend for 10cm.]
Photos stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by fruitbody Epithele typhae - a resupinete fungus (Polyporales: Epitheliaceae) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem base (dead) dead stem base may be infected and damaged by immersed, mycelial matted perithecium Gaeumannomyces graminis - Take-all Patch Disease (Causative Agent) (Magnaporthaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Carex acutiformis may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
CYPERACEAE
(cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges)
Carex
(sedges)

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
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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