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Carex flacca Schreber (Glaucous Sedge)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Carex flacca Plant 27 June 1998 Berks England 11
Carex flacca Plant 7 June 1973 South-east Yorkshire England 1

Suggested Literature

General Works

Taylor, A.S. & Alexander, I., 2005 The ectomycorrhizal symbiosis: life in the real world

Carex flacca may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
CYPERACEAE
(cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges)
Carex
(sedges)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Carex flacca:

(live) live is parasitised by uredium Puccinia urticata var. urticae-flaccae - a nettle clustercup rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) 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 Puccinia urticata var. urticae-flaccae - a nettle clustercup rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
may house apothecium Scutellinia paludicola - a discomycete (Pezizales: Pyronemataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 [on bare soil]
may house apothecium Scutellinia trechispora - a discomycete (Pezizales: Pyronemataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 [on bare soil]
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by thyriothecium Morenoina minuta - a fly speck fungus (Asterinaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by sessile apothecium Mollisia humidicola - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [deeply buried in damp moss]
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by apothecium Psilachnum granulosellum - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by immersed apothecium Stictis elongatispora - a discomycete (Ostropales: Stictidaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead, attached) dead, attached leaf is decayed by apothecium Microscypha muelleri - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead, dry) dead, dry leaf is decayed by immersed, then exposed apothecium Eupropolella celata - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [exposed by pushing up operculum]
leaf (dead, dry) dead, dry leaf is decayed by immersed, then exposed apothecium Hysterostegiella dowardensis - an ascomycete fungus (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [exposed by pushing up operculum of host epidermis which remains attached]
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by embedded sorus Schizonella cocconii - a smut fungus (Ustilaginales: Ustilaginaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by embedded, linear sorus Schizonella melanogramma - a smut fungus (Ustilaginales: Ustilaginaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live, blistered) live, blistered leaf is parasitised by elongated sorus Urocystis fischeri - a smut fungus (Urocystales: Urocystaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (mostly near base) (dead) dead leaf (mostly near base) is decayed by immersed, opening by slit apothecium Lophodermium caricinum - an ascomycete fungus (Rhytismatales: Rhytismataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (often dry, bleached, dead) often dry, bleached, dead leaf is decayed by sporodochium of Arthrinium dematiaceous anamorph Arthrinium morthieri - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Apiosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (often dry, bleached, dead) often dry, bleached, dead leaf is decayed by sporodochium of Arthrinium dematiaceous anamorph Arthrinium puccinioides - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Apiosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
ovary (live) live ovary is parasitised by sorus Anthracoidea pratensis - a smut fungus (Ustilaginales: Anthracoideaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
sheath (dead) dead sheath is decayed by thyriothecium Morenoina minuta - a fly speck fungus (Asterinaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
sheath (dead) dead sheath is decayed by sessile apothecium Mollisia humidicola - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [deeply buried in damp moss]
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by thyriothecium Morenoina minuta - a fly speck fungus (Asterinaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Carex flacca may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
CYPERACEAE
(cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges)
Carex
(sedges)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: 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
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006 Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi

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