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Lamium album L. (White Dead-nettle)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Lamium album Plant 6 May 2000 Berks England 4
Lamium album Plant 17 May 1972 South Wiltshire England 1
Lamium album Plant 4 May 1969 East Norfolk England 1

Suggested Literature

General Works

Shattock, R., 2005 Downy and Powdery Mildews on White Dead-Nettle

Lamium album may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Lamium album:

(live) live is parasitised by Neoerysiphe galeopsidis - Labiate Powdery Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
is foodplant of larva Meligethes difficilis - a pollen beetle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
is foodplant of larva Meligethes morosus - a pollen beetle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
fruiting calyx fruiting calyx may house diurnal larva Chrysolina fastuosa - Dead-nettle Leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by amphigenous colony of Ramularia anamorph Ramularia lamiicola - an anamorphic fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes round or angular, pale brown spots, 1-6mm diam., sometimes with dark borders]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by epiphyllous pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph Septoria lamii - a leaf-spot fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes small brown or white spots with reddish borders]
leaf leaf is mined by solitary larva Agromyza flavipennis - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Restricted Spencer, K.A., 1972 [blotch adjoining leaf margin]
leaf leaf is grazed by nocturnal larva Chrysolina fastuosa - Dead-nettle Leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007
leaf leaf is grazed by adult Chrysolina fastuosa - Dead-nettle Leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007
root (live) live root is swollen by sorus Melanotaenium jaapii - a smut fungus (Urocystales: Melanotaeniaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by immersed, gregarious, often in lines pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph Phoma nebulosa - a coelomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (thin) (dry, dead) dry, dead stem (thin) is decayed by gregarious or scattered, erumpent apothecium Pirottaea lamii - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (underground) (live) live stem (underground) is swollen by sorus Melanotaenium jaapii - a smut fungus (Urocystales: Melanotaeniaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Lamium album may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
LAMIACEAE
(dead-nettles, mints and scented herbs - formerly Labiatae)
Lamium
(dead-nettles)

References

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
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
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae

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