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Lolium multiflorum Lam. (Italian Rye-grass)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Lolium multiflorum Plant 16 July 1972 (Yorks) England 1

Suggested Literature

Lolium multiflorum 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 Lolium multiflorum:

(live) live is parasitised by Blumeria graminis - Grass Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Puccinia coronata - Crown Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [sometimes arranged in circles around the uredia]
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
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous telium Puccinia hordei - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous uredium Puccinia hordei - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph Ascochyta desmazieri - a coelomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes reddish-brown spots with brock-red margins]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by conidiophore of Drechslera dematiaceous anamorph Pyrenophora lolii - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Pleosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes dark brown, elongate spots which coalesce to form brown blotches]
spikelet (live) live spikelet may be infected and damaged by partly hidden sorus Tilletia lolii - a smut fungus (Tilletiales: Tilletiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [sorus partly hidden by glumes]
stem (live) live stem is parasitised by telium Puccinia hordei - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Lolium multiflorum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
POACEAE
(grasses - formerly Graminae)
Lolium
(rye grasses)

References

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

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