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Plantago media L. (Hoary Plantain)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Plantago media Plant 10 May 2002 Berks England 3
Plantago media Plant 25 June 1970 East Norfolk England 1

Suggested Literature

Plantago media 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 Plantago media:

(live) live is parasitised by Peronospora alta - a downy mildew (Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by cleistothecium Erysiphe sordida - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by conidial anamorph Erysiphe sordida - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (blade->petiole) leaf (blade->petiole) is mined by larva Phytomyza griffithsi - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Restricted Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine initially lower surface but largely on upper surface, iregularly linear, finally almost filling the petiole]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by amphigenous colony of Ramularia anamorph Ramularia rhabdospora - an anamorphic fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (petiole) mine leaf (petiole) mine may house puparium Phytomyza griffithsi - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Restricted Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf (senescent) senescent leaf is parasitised by effuse colony of Taeniolella dematiaceous anamorph Taeniolella plantaginis - a fungus (Hysteriales: Mytilinidiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf is grazed by adult Chrysolina haemoptera - Plantain Leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007
stem (upper part) (dead) dead stem (upper part) is decayed by immersed uner blackish-brown epidermis conidioma of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph Phomopsis subordinaria - a coelomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (upper part) (live) live stem (upper part) is decayed by immersed uner blackish-brown epidermis conidioma of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph Phomopsis subordinaria - a coelomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Plantago media may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Plantago
(plantains)

References

Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae

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