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Myosoton aquaticum (L.) Moench (Water Chickweed)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Myosoton aquaticum In fruit 3 November 2001 Berks England 2
Myosoton aquaticum Plant 5 July 1975 Berks England 2

Suggested Literature

Myosoton aquaticum 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 Myosoton aquaticum:

Photos anther (live) live anther may be infected and damaged by embedded sorus Microbotryum stellariae - Chickweed Anther Smut (Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
leaf (fading) fading leaf is parasitised by pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph Ascochyta anisomera - a coelomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes large yellowish areas]
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Hypera diversipunctata - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) UK/Ireland Morris, M.G., 2002

Myosoton aquaticum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
CARYOPHYLLACEAE
(chickweeds, stitchworts and campions)

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
Morris, M.G., 2002 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006 Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi

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