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Andromeda polifolia L. (Bog Rosemary)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Andromeda polifolia In flower 17 July 2007 Cardigan Wales 3

Suggested Literature

Andromeda polifolia may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ERICACEAE
(heaths and heathers)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Andromeda polifolia:

leaf (live) live leaf is galled by fruitbody Exobasidium karstenii - a redleaf fungus (Exobasidiales: Exobasidiaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [become enlarged, reddish to purplish-black and prematurely dehiscent]
leaf leaf is galled by Cecidophyes ruebsaameni - a gall mite (Tarsonemoidea: Eriophyidae) Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
leaf leaf is parasitised by stromatic pyncidial anamorph Rhytisma andromedae - a tar-spot (Rhytismatales: Rhytismataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf is parasitised by stromatic apothecium Rhytisma andromedae - a tar-spot (Rhytismatales: Rhytismataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
shoot (live) live shoot is galled by fruitbody Exobasidium karstenii - a redleaf fungus (Exobasidiales: Exobasidiaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [become enlarged, reddish to purplish-black and leaves prematurely dehiscent]
stem stem is parasitised by stromatic apothecium Rhytisma andromedae - a tar-spot (Rhytismatales: Rhytismataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem stem is parasitised by stromatic pyncidial anamorph Rhytisma andromedae - a tar-spot (Rhytismatales: Rhytismataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Andromeda polifolia may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ERICACEAE
(heaths and heathers)

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
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls

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