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Festuca ovina agg. L. (sheep's fescue [agg.])

Suggested Literature

Festuca ovina agg. may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
POACEAE
(grasses - formerly Graminae)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Festuca ovina agg.:

(live) live is parasitised by Blumeria graminis - Grass Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
(live) live is parasitised by fruitbody Limonomyces roseipellis - a basidiomycete fungus (Polyporales: Corticiaceae) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [in utility grassland]
Photos (live) live is parasitised by scattered or in rows uredium Uromyces dactylidis - Celandine Clustercup Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by immersed pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph Ascochyta festucae - a coelomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (fading) fading leaf is decayed by immersed pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph Ascochyta festucae - a coelomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by linear, stroma Phyllachora sylvatica f. sylvatica - an ascomycete (Phyllachorales: Phyllachoraceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [leaf sometimes turns bright yellow]
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Puccinia coronata - Crown Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous, scattered or in patches uredium Puccinia coronata - Crown Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by epiphyllous uredium Puccinia festucae - 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
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Puccinia festucae - 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
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by mainly hypophyllous telium Uromyces dactylidis - Celandine Clustercup Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live, blistered) live, blistered leaf is spotted by long, linear, erumpent sorus Ustilago striiformis - a stripe smut of grasses (Ustilaginales: Ustilaginaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf sheath (usually close to stem base) leaf sheath (usually close to stem base) may be infected and damaged by Fusarium anamorph Monographella nivalis - Snow Mould (Xylariales) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Festuca ovina agg. may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
POACEAE
(grasses - formerly Graminae)
Festuca
(fescue grasses)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
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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