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Poa compressa L. (Flattened Meadow-grass)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Poa compressa Plant 11 June 2003 Monmouth United Kingdom 4 11

Suggested Literature

Poa compressa may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
POACEAE
(grasses - formerly Graminae)
Poa
(meadow-grasses)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Poa compressa:

(live) live is parasitised by Blumeria graminis - Grass Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) Foreign Ing, B., 1990
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by colony of Cercosporidium dematiaceous anamorph Mycosphaerella recutita - an ascomycete (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [conidiophores emerge through stomata. Causes chocolate coloured spots with pale centres.]
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous, long covered by epidermis telium Puccinia brachypodii var. poae-nemoralis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by epiphyllous uredium Puccinia brachypodii var. poae-nemoralis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
sheath (dead) dead sheath is decayed by colony of Cercosporidium dematiaceous anamorph Mycosphaerella recutita - an ascomycete (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [conidiophores emerge through stomata. Causes chocolate coloured spots with pale centres.]

Poa compressa may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
POACEAE
(grasses - formerly Graminae)
Poa
(meadow-grasses)

References

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

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