BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Carex limosa L. (Bog-sedge)

Suggested Literature

Carex limosa 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 limosa:

leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by immersed, then exposed apothecium Hysteronaevia olivacea - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [exposed by shedding operculum of host epidermis]
ovary (live) live ovary is parasitised by sorus Anthracoidea limosa - a smut fungus (Ustilaginales: Anthracoideaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Carex limosa 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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