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Carex sylvatica Hudson (Wood Sedge)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Carex sylvatica Plant 5 May 2002 Oxon England 9 14

Suggested Literature

Carex sylvatica may 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 sylvatica:

leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by scattered, immersed pseudothecium Phaeosphaeria eustoma - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [covered by grey-spotted epidermis]
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by subsessile apothecium Rodwayella citrinula - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) 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 puccinioides - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Apiosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf is mined by larva Cerodontha staryi - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Foreign Restricted Gibbs, D., 2005
Nowakowski, J.T., 1973
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by subsessile apothecium Rodwayella citrinula - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Carex sylvatica 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
Gibbs, D., 2005 Cerodontha rohdendorfi Nowakowski and Cerodontha staryi (Stary) (Diptera: Agromyzidae) new to Britain
Nowakowski, J.T., 1973 Monographie der europäischen Arten der Gattun Cerodontha Rond. (Diptera, Agromyzidae)

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