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Inula (a genus of composites)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #macrophotos #webs
Species Inula britannica L. (Meadow Inula)     2
Species Inula conyzae (Greiss.) Meikle (Ploughman’s-spikenard) 8 7 8
Species Inula crithmoides L. (Golden-samphire) 8   3
Species Inula helenium L. (Elecampane)     1
Species Inula salicina L. (Irish Fleabane)     2

Suggested Literature

Inula 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 Inula:

leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by Albugo tragopogonis var. inulae - a white rust (Peronosporales: Albuginaceae) Foreign Legon, N.W., 2006
Photos leaf leaf is mined by larva Chromatomyia syngenesiae - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine linear, whitish, both upper and lower surface]
Photos stem (dead, decayed) dead, decayed stem is decayed by fruitbody Lachnella villosa - a cyphelloid fungus (Agaricales: Marasmiaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem stem may contain larva Melanagromyza aeneoventris - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Foreign Questionable Spencer, K.A., 1976

Inula 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)

References

Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Legon, N.W., 2006 Profiles of Fungi: 141. Crustomyces expallens (Bres.) Hjorstam
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae
Spencer, K.A., 1976 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark

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