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Carex arenaria L. (Sand Sedge)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Carex arenaria Plant 24 May 1969 East Norfolk England 2

Suggested Literature

Carex arenaria may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
CYPERACEAE
(cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges)
Carex
(sedges)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Carex arenaria:

(live) live is parasitised by telium Puccinia dioicae var. arenariicola - 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
(live) live is parasitised by uredium Puccinia dioicae var. arenariicola - 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
(live) live is parasitised by telium Puccinia dioicae var. schoeleriana - 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
(live) live is parasitised by uredium Puccinia dioicae var. schoeleriana - 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
debris debris is decayed by fruitbody Psathyrella flexispora - a brittlestem (Agaricales: Psathyrellaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [in sand dunes]
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph Ascochyta sodalis - a coelomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by pycnidium of Stagonospora coelomycetous anamorph Stagonospora caricis - a coelomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by subsessile, swarming apothecium Pezizella incerta - a discomycete (Helotiales: Helotiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (often dry, bleached, dead) often dry, bleached, dead leaf is decayed by sporodochium of Arthrinium dematiaceous anamorph Arthrinium puccinioides - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Apiosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf tip (dead) dead leaf tip is spotted by Septoria coelomycetous anamorph Septoria caricis - a leaf-spot fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [mostly on dead tips of living leaves]
Photos ovary (live) live ovary is parasitised by sorus Anthracoidea arenaria - a smut fungus (Ustilaginales: Anthracoideaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Carex arenaria may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
CYPERACEAE
(cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges)
Carex
(sedges)

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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