BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Salix lapponum L. (Downy Willow)

Suggested Literature

Salix lapponum may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
SALICACEAE
(poplars and willows)
Salix
(willows)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Salix lapponum:

(live) live is parasitised by telium Melampsora epitea var. reticulatae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
(live) live is parasitised by uredium Melampsora epitea var. reticulatae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by mostly hypophyllous, subepidermal telium Melampsora epitea - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous uredium Melampsora epitea - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Melampsoraceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (upperside) leaf (upperside) is galled by larva Pontania dolichura - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) UK/Ireland Minor Benson, R.B., 1958 [dark purple or red above, green below, sausage-shaped galls, 2-3/5-13mm, often paired either side of the midrib, project only from upper surface]

Salix lapponum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Salix
(willows)

References

Benson, R.B., 1958 Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (c)
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: 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

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