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Empetrum nigrum L. (Crowberry)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Empetrum nigrum Plant 3 July 2005 Brecon Wales 10
Empetrum nigrum Plant 3 July 2005 Brecon Wales 1
Empetrum nigrum In fruit 2 July 2005 Brecon Wales 9

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #webs
Subspecies Empetrum nigrum ssp. hermaphroditum (Hagerup) Boecher (Hermaphrodite Crowberry) 2 3
Subspecies Empetrum nigrum ssp. nigrum L. (Crowberry) 1 2

Suggested Literature

Empetrum nigrum may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Empetrum nigrum:

(live) live is associate of fruitbody Hygrocybe lilacina - a waxcap (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on soil, arctic-alpine]
leaf (dead, attached) dead, attached leaf is decayed by epiphyllous, scattered perithecium Botryosphaeria hyperborea - an ascomycete (Dothideales: Botryosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead, attached) dead, attached leaf is decayed by erumpent apothecium Phaeangellina empetri - a discomycete (Helotiales: Helotiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead, attached) dead, attached leaf is decayed by apothecium Arwidssonia empetri - a pyrenomycete (Xylariales: Hyponectriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead, attached) dead, attached leaf is decayed by epiphyllous, scattered perithecium Physalospora empetri - an ascomycete (Xylariales: Hyponectriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by epiphyllous uredium Chrysomyxa empetri - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Coleosporiaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Empetrum nigrum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

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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