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Cirsium dissectum (L.) Hill (Meadow Thistle)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Cirsium dissectum Plant 9 July 2005 Oxon England 1
Cirsium dissectum Plant 9 June 2003 Glam Wales 2
Cirsium dissectum Plant 28 July 2000 Berks England 9 6
Cirsium dissectum Plant 7 July 1971 East Sussex England 3

Suggested Literature

Cirsium dissectum may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)
Cardueae
(“thistles”)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Cirsium dissectum:

(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia calcitrapae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by aecium Puccinia dioicae var. dioicae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [only in the presence of Carex dioica]
(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia dioicae var. dioicae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
is foodplant of larva Terellia ruficauda - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Chaetostomella cylindrica - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland Questionable White, I.M., 1988
Photos capitulum capitulum may be infected and damaged by embedded sorus Thecaphora trailii - a seed smut fungus (Ustilaginales: Glomosporiaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [replaces the florets]
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by mostly hypophyllous telium Puccinia calcitrapae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by uredinoid, mostly epiphyllous aecium Puccinia calcitrapae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by mostly hypophyllous uredium Puccinia calcitrapae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf-mine leaf-mine may house puparium Phytomyza autumnalis - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf leaf is mined by larva Phytomyza autumnalis - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine long, distinctly greenish]

Cirsium dissectum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)
Cirsium
(a genus of thistles)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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