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Persicaria laxiflora (Weihe) Opiz (Tasteless Water-pepper)

Suggested Literature

Persicaria laxiflora 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 laxiflora:

ovary (live) live ovary may be infected and damaged by sorus Sphacelotheca hydropiperis - a ustilaginomycete fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
ovary (live, swollen, deformed) live, swollen, deformed ovary is galled by embedded sorus Bauhinus cordae - a smut fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) Foreign Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006

Persicaria laxiflora 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

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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