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Acorus calamus L. (Sweet-flag)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Acorus calamus Plant 15 May 2005 Berks England 1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Lansdown R.V. & Pankhurst T.J. Privately published

Acorus calamus may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Acorus calamus:

(decayed) decayed is decayed by fruitbody Endoperplexa enodulosa - a jelly fungus (Tremellales: Exidiaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf (lower part) leaf (lower part) is decayed by immersed pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph Ascochyta acori - a coelomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf is spotted by amphigenous Ramularia anamorph Ramularia aromatica - an anamorphic fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes oval, reddish-brown to black spots, 5-20x2-5mm.]

Acorus calamus may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)

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

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