BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Scirpus sylvaticus L. (Wood Club-rush)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Scirpus sylvaticus Plant 13 July 2002 Berks England 6
Scirpus sylvaticus Plant 28 June 1998 North Hampshire England 6

Suggested Literature

Scirpus sylvaticus 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 Scirpus sylvaticus:

leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by superficial, sessile, clypeate apothecium Micropeziza cornea - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by very shortly stalked apothecium Psilachnum asemum - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by sorus Dicellomyces scirpi - a ustilaginomycete (Exobasidiales: Brachybasidiaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf (often dry, bleached, dead) often dry, bleached, dead leaf is decayed by amphigenous colony of Arthrinium dematiaceous anamorph Physalospora scirpi - a pyrenomycete (Xylariales: Hyponectriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf-mine leaf-mine may house puparium Cerodontha scirpi - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Restricted Spencer, K.A., 1972 [in base of leaf]
leaf leaf is mined by larva Cerodontha scirpi - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Restricted Spencer, K.A., 1972 [very long mine into leaf base]
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by superficial, sessile, clypeate apothecium Micropeziza cornea - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Scirpus sylvaticus 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)

References

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
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae

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