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Stellaria holostea L. (Greater Stitchwort)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Stellaria holostea In flower 5 May 2007 Berks England 1
Stellaria holostea In fruit 23 June 2001 Berks England 4
Stellaria holostea Plant 22 April 2000 Berks England 6 9 6
Stellaria holostea Plant 12 May 1971 East Norfolk England 2

Suggested Literature

Stellaria holostea 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 Stellaria holostea:

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 (dead) dead leaf is decayed by hypophyllous, immersed pseudothecium Mycosphaerella isariophora - an ascomycete (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by pseudothecium Didymella holosteae - an ascomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dying) dying leaf is parasitised by pseudothecium Didymella holosteae - an ascomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Puccinia arenariae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by mostly hypophyllous uredium Melampsorella caryophyllacearum - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Minor 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 mostly hypophyllous telium Melampsorella caryophyllacearum - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Stellaria holostea may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

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

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
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006 Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi

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