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Linum usitatissimum L. (Flax)

Suggested Literature

Linum usitatissimum 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 Linum usitatissimum:

Photos (live) live is parasitised by Golovinomyces orontii - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
(live) live is parasitised by uredium Melampsora lini var. liniperda - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by telium Melampsora lini var. liniperda - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Melampsora lini var. liniperda - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live may be infected and damaged by immersed pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph Phoma exigua var. linicola - a coelomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [a cause of foot rot of cultivated flax]
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by aecium Melampsora lini var. liniperda - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by Alternaria dematiaceous anamorph Alternaria linicola - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Pleosporales: Pleosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes brown, rectangular spots]
seedling seedling may be infected and damaged by Alternaria dematiaceous anamorph Alternaria linicola - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Pleosporales: Pleosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes damping-off]
seedling seedling may be infected and damaged by acervulus of Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph Colletotrichum lini - a coelomycete (Phyllachorales: Phyllachoraceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes seedling blight]
stem (live) live stem may be infected and damaged by sporodochium of Polyspora anamorph Guignardia fulvida - an ascomycete (Dothideales: Botryosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes stem-break and browning]
stem stem is parasitised by haustorium Cuscuta epilinum - Flax Dodder (Cuscutaceae) Major Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985
Stace, C., 1997

Linum usitatissimum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Linum
(flaxes)

References

Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985 Flora of the British Isles
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
Stace, C., 1997 New Flora of the British Isles (Ed 2)

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