BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

PLANTAE
(plants)

SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

EUPHORBIACEAE
(spurges)

Mercurialis
(mercuries)

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Mercurialis (mercuries)

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon
Species	Mercurialis annua L. (Annual Mercury)	2				4
Species	Mercurialis perennis L. (Dog’s Mercury)	19	14	5	1	45

Suggested Literature

Mercurialis may 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 Mercurialis:

	leaf (live)	live leaf is galled by aecium	Melampsora populnea - Dog’s Mercury / Pine / Poplar Rust (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
	leaf (live)	live leaf is parasitised by mostly epiphyllous, in small clusters pycnium	Melampsora populnea - Dog’s Mercury / Pine / Poplar Rust (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
	leaf (petiole) (live)	live leaf (petiole) is galled by aecium	Melampsora populnea - Dog’s Mercury / Pine / Poplar Rust (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
	leaf	leaf is galled by	Synchytrium mercurialis - a chytridiomycete fungus (Chytridiales: Synchytriaceae)		Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
	petiole (live)	live petiole is parasitised by mostly epiphyllous, in small clusters pycnium	Melampsora populnea - Dog’s Mercury / Pine / Poplar Rust (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
	stem (live)	live stem is galled by aecium	Melampsora populnea - Dog’s Mercury / Pine / Poplar Rust (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
	stem (live)	live stem is parasitised by mostly epiphyllous, in small clusters pycnium	Melampsora populnea - Dog’s Mercury / Pine / Poplar Rust (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
	stem	stem is galled by larva	Apion semivittatum - a seed weevil (Coleoptera: Apionidae)		Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
	stem	stem is galled by	Synchytrium mercurialis - a chytridiomycete fungus (Chytridiales: Synchytriaceae)		Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986

Mercurialis may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

References

Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls

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