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Festuca pratensis Hudson (Meadow Fescue)

Suggested Literature

Festuca pratensis may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
POACEAE
(grasses - formerly Graminae)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Festuca pratensis:

(live) live is parasitised by Blumeria graminis - Grass Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
leaf (basal) (live) live leaf (basal) is parasitised by cleistothecium Blumeria graminis - Grass Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) 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 (live) live leaf is parasitised by effuse, mainly epiphyllous colony of Oidium anamorph Blumeria graminis - Grass Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous, scattered or in patches uredium Puccinia coronata - Crown Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Puccinia coronata - Crown Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous uredium Puccinia graminis ssp. graminicola - a black stem rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by solitary or grouped conidiophore of Drechslera dematiaceous anamorph Pyrenophora dictyoides - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Pleosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes net-blotch lesions]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by Spermospora anamorph Spermospora lolii - an anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes greyish or reddish-brown spots]
leaf -> sheath leaf -> sheath is mined by larva Cerodontha denticornis - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Major Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf sheath leaf sheath may house puparium Cerodontha denticornis - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Major Spencer, K.A., 1972
sheath (live) live sheath is parasitised by cleistothecium Blumeria graminis - Grass Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
sheath (live) live sheath is parasitised by linear telium Puccinia graminis ssp. graminicola - a black stem rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
sheath (live) live sheath is parasitised by uredium Puccinia graminis ssp. graminicola - a black stem rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (live) live stem is parasitised by linear telium Puccinia graminis ssp. graminicola - a black stem rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (live) live stem is parasitised by uredium Puccinia graminis ssp. graminicola - a black stem rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Festuca pratensis may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
POACEAE
(grasses - formerly Graminae)
Festuca
(fescue grasses)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae

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