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Carex ericetorum Pollich (Rare Spring-sedge)

Suggested Literature

Carex ericetorum 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 ericetorum:

is decayed by sessile or subsessile apothecium Lachnum callimorphum - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by embedded, linear sorus Schizonella melanogramma - a smut fungus (Ustilaginales: Ustilaginaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
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

Carex ericetorum 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
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006 Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi

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