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Vaccinium uliginosum L. (Bog Bilberry)

Suggested Literature

Vaccinium uliginosum may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ERICACEAE
(heaths and heathers)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Vaccinium uliginosum:

fruit (dead, fallen, mummified) dead, fallen, mummified fruit is decayed by apothecium Monilinia megalospora - a discomycete (Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by stromatic pseudothecium Protoventuria myrtilli - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Venturiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by erumpent stroma Protoventuria myrtilli - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Venturiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by apothecium Lophodermium maculare - an ascomycete (Rhytismatales: Rhytismataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [on pale parery spots surrounded by black stromatic lines]
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by subcuticular or subepidermal, clustered, pseudostromatic pseudothecium Pyrenobotrys conferta - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Venturiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by subcuticular or subepidermal pseudostroma Pyrenobotrys conferta - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Venturiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (overwintered) overwintered leaf is decayed by subcuticular or subepidermal, clustered, pseudostromatic pseudothecium Pyrenobotrys conferta - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Venturiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (overwintered) overwintered leaf is decayed by subcuticular or subepidermal pseudostroma Pyrenobotrys conferta - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Venturiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf or shoot leaf or shoot is foodplant of Monilia anamorph Monilinia megalospora - a discomycete (Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf is parasitised by telium Naohidemyces vacciniorum - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous, long covered by epidermis uredium Naohidemyces vacciniorum - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Minor Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
shoot (live) live shoot is galled by fruitbody Exobasidium expansum - Northern Bilberry Redleaf (Exobasidiales: Exobasidiaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
twig (dead) dead twig is decayed by apothecium Sporomega degenerans - an ascomycete (Rhytismatales: Rhytismataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Vaccinium uliginosum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ERICACEAE
(heaths and heathers)
Vaccinium
(bilberries and cranberries)

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

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