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Tropaeolum (garden nasturtiums)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #webs
Species Tropaeolum majus L. (Nasturtium)   2
Species Tropaeolum speciosum Poeppig & Endl. (Flame Nasturtium) 1  

Suggested Literature

Tropaeolum may 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 Tropaeolum:

leaf (live) live leaf is mined by larva Chromatomyia horticola - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Robbins, R., 1990
leaf (live) live leaf is mined by larva Scaptomyza flava - a fruit fly (Diptera: Drosophilidae) UK/Ireland Robbins, R., 1990 [mine centred over where the petiole enters the leaf]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by mostly hypophyllous Acroconidiella dematiaceous anamorph Acroconidiella tropaeoli - a dematiaceous anamorph fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes brownish or purplish spots up to 1cm diam., often confluent and sometimes with broad yellow margins]
stem (live) live stem is spotted by Acroconidiella dematiaceous anamorph Acroconidiella tropaeoli - a dematiaceous anamorph fungus Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes brownish or purplish spots up to 1cm diam., often confluent and sometimes with broad yellow margins]

Tropaeolum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Robbins, R., 1990 A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the midlands

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