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Artemisia absinthium L. (Wormwood)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Artemisia absinthium Plant 29 July 1971 South Devon England 1

Suggested Literature

Artemisia absinthium 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)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Artemisia absinthium:

is foodplant of larva Paroxyna misella - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Trupanea stellata - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous, effuse colony of Cercospora dematiaceous anamorph Mycovellosiella ferruginea - an ascomycete (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by mostly hypophyllous uredium Puccinia tanaceti - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (yellowed) yellowed leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous cleistothecium Erysiphe artemisiae - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf is mined by larva Trypeta artemisiae - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign Questionable White, I.M., 1988
Photos leaf leaf is mined by larva Trypeta zoe - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
Photos stem (live) live stem is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Puccinia tanaceti - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem stem may contain larva Oxyna parietina - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland Questionable White, I.M., 1988

Artemisia absinthium 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)
Anthemideae
(a tribe of composites)
Artemisia
(mugworts)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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