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Geranium robertianum L. (Herb Robert)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Geranium robertianum In flower 23 June 2001 Berks England 12 18
Geranium robertianum Plant 18 March 2000 Oxon England 2
Geranium robertianum Plant 2 January 1999 Berks England 1
Geranium robertianum Plant 29 May 1978 Surrey England 1
Geranium robertianum Plant 30 June 1974 North-east Yorkshire England 1

Suggested Literature

Geranium robertianum may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Geranium
(true geraniums)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Geranium robertianum:

(live) live is parasitised by Podosphaera fugax - a conidial powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
leaf (live) live leaf is mined by larva Agromyza nigrescens - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Robbins, R., 1990 [an upper surface corridor of rather variable length and width. Pupariates externally.]
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous uredium Uromyces geranii - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Uromyces geranii - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous aecium Uromyces geranii - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous pycnium Uromyces geranii - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live, esp. over-wintered) live, esp. over-wintered leaf is parasitised by epiphyllous, superficial pseudothecium Coleroa robertiani - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Venturiaceae) Restricted Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf is foodplant of larva Protoemphytus carpini - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Major Benson, R.B., 1952
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Limobius borealis - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) UK/Ireland Major Morris, M.G., 2002

Geranium robertianum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Geranium
(true geraniums)

References

Benson, R.B., 1952 Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (b)
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Morris, M.G., 2002 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae
Robbins, R., 1990 A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the midlands

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