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Carex echinata Murray (Star Sedge)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #macrophotos
Carex echinata Plant 22 June 1998 Berks England 10

Suggested Literature

Carex echinata 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 echinata:

leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by sessile apothecium Nimbomollisia eriophori - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) 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 caricicola - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Apiosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
ovary (live) live ovary is parasitised by sorus Anthracoidea heterospora - a smut fungus (Ustilaginales: Anthracoideaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
ovary (live) live ovary is parasitised by sorus Anthracoidea karii - a smut fungus (Ustilaginales: Anthracoideaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by sessile apothecium Nimbomollisia eriophori - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Carex echinata 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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