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Rhynchospora alba (L.) Vahl (White Beak-sedge)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Rhynchospora alba In flower 17 July 2007 Cardigan Wales 4
Rhynchospora alba Plant 25 June 2002 Dorset England 3
Rhynchospora alba Plant 22 July 1979 Surrey England 1
Rhynchospora alba Plant 1 August 1970 Surrey England 1

Suggested Literature

Rhynchospora alba 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)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Rhynchospora alba:

ovary (live) live ovary may be infected and damaged by embedded sorus Ustanciosporium gigantosporum - a smut fungus (Ustilaginales: Cintractiaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
ovary (live) live ovary may be infected and damaged by embedded sorus Ustanciosporium majus - a smut fungus (Ustilaginales: Cintractiaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006

Rhynchospora alba 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)
Rhynchospora
(a beak-sedges)

References

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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