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Seriphidium maritimum (L.) Polj. (Sea Wormwood)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Seriphidium maritimum Plant 19 September 1968 East Sussex England 1

Suggested Literature

Seriphidium maritimum may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Seriphidium maritimum:

is foodplant of larva Mordellistena nanuloides - a tumbling flower beetle (Coleoptera: Mordellidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Paroxyna absinthii - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland White, I.M., 1988
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by mostly hypophyllous uredium Puccinia tanaceti - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf is grazed by adult Longitarsus absynthii - Sea Wormwood Flea Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) UK/Ireland Kevan D.K., 1967
Bullock, J.A., 1992
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Longitarsus absynthii - Sea Wormwood Flea Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) UK/Ireland Restricted Kevan D.K., 1967
Bullock, J.A., 1992
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by sometimes in rows pycnidium of Camposporium coelomycetous anamorph Camarosporium aequivocum - a coelomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos stem (live) live stem is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Puccinia tanaceti - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Seriphidium maritimum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)
Anthemideae
(a tribe of composites)

References

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Kevan D.K., 1967 The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae)
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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