BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

PLANTAE
(plants)

SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

POLYGONACEAE
(docks and knotgrasses)

Persicaria
(knotweeds)

Persicaria vivipara
(Alpine Bistort)

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Persicaria vivipara (L.) Ronse Decraene (Alpine Bistort)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon	Summary	Date	Vice-county	Country
Persicaria vivipara	Plant	3 September 1998	Mid Perth	Scotland	1

Suggested Literature

Persicaria vivipara may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

PLANTAE
(plants)

SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

POLYGONACEAE
(docks and knotgrasses)

Persicaria
(knotweeds)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Persicaria vivipara:

	(live)	live is parasitised by telium	Puccinia septentrionalis - 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 [in Scotland]
	bulbil (live, swollen)	live, swollen bulbil is galled by sorus	Bauhinus bistortarum - a smut fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [Scotland only]
	flower (live, swollen)	live, swollen flower is galled by sorus	Bauhinus bistortarum - a smut fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [Scotland only]
	leaf (live)	live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous uredium	Puccinia septentrionalis - 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 [in Scotland]
	leaf (live)	live leaf is parasitised by embedded sorus	Bauhinus pustulatus - a smut fungus (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae)		Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
	leaf (live)	live leaf is spotted by hypophyllous colony of Bostrichonema anamorph	Bostrichonema alpestre - an anamorphic fungus		Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes dark reddish brown, round or angular spots up to 3mm diam.]
	leaf	leaf is parasitised by uredium	Puccinia bistortae - 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
	leaf	leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium	Puccinia bistortae - 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

Persicaria vivipara may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

POLYGONACEAE
(docks and knotgrasses)

Persicaria
(knotweeds)

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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