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Carex elata All. (Tufted Sedge)

Scarcity (regional) Scarce

Suggested Literature

Carex elata 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 elata:

(live) live is parasitised by uredium Puccinia paludosa - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by telium Puccinia paludosa - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by telium Puccinia urticata var. urticae-acutae - a nettle clustercup rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by uredium Puccinia urticata var. urticae-acutae - a nettle clustercup rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
fruit (old, blackened) old, blackened fruit is decayed by sporodochium of anamorph Ciboria aschersoniana - a discomycete (Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
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]
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by thyriothecium Morenoina paludosa - a fly speck fungus (Asterinaceae) 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 stalked, occasionally sessile sporodochium of Myrothecium dematiaceous anamorph Myrothecium cinctum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Hypocreales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [in marshes and fens]
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 (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, 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) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [mostly on plants subject to occasional flooding]
leaf (mostly near base) (dead) dead leaf (mostly near base) is decayed by immersed, opening by slit apothecium Lophodermium caricinum - an ascomycete fungus (Rhytismatales: Rhytismataceae) 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
sheath (dead) dead sheath is decayed by thyriothecium Morenoina paludosa - a fly speck fungus (Asterinaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by thyriothecium Morenoina paludosa - a fly speck fungus (Asterinaceae) 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
Photos stem (upper parts) stem (upper parts) is parasitised by scattered sporodochium Myriosclerotinia sulcatula - a discomycete (Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem stem may contain larva Thryogenes fiorii - a weevil (Coleoptera: Erirhinidae) UK/Ireland Morris, M.G., 2002
Photos stem stem is parasitised by sclerotioid, long and slender stalked apothecium Myriosclerotinia sulcatula - a discomycete (Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos stem stem is parasitised by sclerotium Myriosclerotinia sulcatula - a discomycete (Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Carex elata 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

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Morris, M.G., 2002 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae

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