BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
POLYGONACEAE (docks and knotgrasses)
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
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 |
 |
 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Fagopyrum (buckwheats) | 1 | 3 | |||
| Genus | Fallopia (a genus of knotweeds) | 5 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 60 |
| Species | Homalogladium platycladium (a garden plant) | 2 | ||||
| Species | Oxyria digyna (L.) Hill (Mountain Sorrel) | 5 | ||||
| Genus | Persicaria (knotweeds) | 9 | 13 | 36 | 1 | 59 |
| Genus | Polygonum (a genus of knotgrasses) | 4 | 17 | 19 | 1 | 25 |
| Genus | Rheum (rhubarbs) | 2 | 5 | |||
| Genus | Rumex (docks) | 14 | 36 | 43 | 2 | 166 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Lousley, J.E. & Kent, D.H., 1981 | Docks and Knotweeds of the British Isles |
POLYGONACEAE may also be covered by literature listed under:
|
BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
PLANTAE (plants) |
SPERMATOPHYTA (vascular plants) |
MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants) |
MAGNOLIIDAE (dicotyledonous flowering plants) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Associated with POLYGONACEAE:
| leaf | leaf is grazed by larva | Ametastegia equiseti - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) | Benson, R.B., 1952 | |
| leaf | leaf is grazed by larva | Ametastegia glabrata - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) | Benson, R.B., 1952 |
Polygonaceae may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
|
MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants) |
MAGNOLIIDAE (dicotyledonous flowering plants) |
References
| Benson, R.B., 1952 | Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (b) |