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Melampyrum sylvaticum L. (Small Cow-wheat)

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Tennant, D.J., 2008 Small Cow-wheat Melampyrum sylvaticum L.: Scrophulariaceae in England

Melampyrum sylvaticum may also 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

Melampyrum sylvaticum is associated with:

Photos Briza media - Quaking-grass (Poaceae) is hemiparasitic on root Foreign Tennant, D.J., 2008
Photos Betula pubescens - Downy Birch (Betulaceae) is hemiparasitic on root UK/Ireland Tennant, D.J., 2008
Photos Corylus avellana - Hazel (Betulaceae) is hemiparasitic on root UK/Ireland Tennant, D.J., 2008
Photos Calluna vulgaris - Heather (Ericaceae) is hemiparasitic on root UK/Ireland Tennant, D.J., 2008
Photos Vaccinium myrtillus - Bilberry (Ericaceae) is hemiparasitic on root UK/Ireland Tennant, D.J., 2008
Photos Sorbus aucuparia - Rowan, Mountain Ash (Rosaceae) is hemiparasitic on root UK/Ireland Tennant, D.J., 2008
Photos Melampyrum pratense - Common Cow-wheat (Scrophulariaceae) is hemiparasitic on root Foreign Tennant, D.J., 2008

Associated with Melampyrum sylvaticum:

Photos (live) live is parasitised by Podosphaera fusca - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) Foreign Ing, B., 1990

Melampyrum sylvaticum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
SCROPHULARIACEAE
(figworts, foxgloves and speedwells)

References

Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Tennant, D.J., 2008 Small Cow-wheat Melampyrum sylvaticum L.: Scrophulariaceae in England

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