BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Luzula (wood-rushes)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #webs
Species Luzula arcuata Sw. (Curved Wood-rush)       2
Species Luzula campestris (L.) DC. (Field Wood-rush)   4 2 3
Species Luzula forsteri (Smith) DC. (Southern Wood-rush)       2
Species Luzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej. (Heath Wood-rush) 2 2 14 2
Species Luzula pilosa (L.) Willd. (Hairy Woodrush)   5 7 8
Species Luzula sylvatica (Hudson) Gaudin (Great Wood-rush)   11 10 17

Suggested Literature

Luzula may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
JUNCACEAE
(rushes and wood-rushes)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Luzula:

debris (dead, decayed, wet) dead, decayed, wet debris is decayed by fruitbody Mycena bulbosa - a bonnet (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by scattered, initially immersed pseudothecium Phaeosphaeria herpotrichoides - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by fruitbody Phlebiella filicina - a resupinate fungus (Polyporales: Xenasmataceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf (dying) dying leaf is decayed by fruitbody Athelopsis lembospora - a basidiomycete (Polyporales: Atheliaceae) UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf-mine leaf-mine may house puparium Cerodontha bimaculata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Restricted Spencer, K.A., 1972 [at end of mine]
leaf leaf is mined by larva Cerodontha bimaculata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Restricted Spencer, K.A., 1972
ovary (live) live ovary is parasitised by sorus Bauerago vuyckii - a ustilaginomycete fungus (Microbotryales: Ustilentylomataceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by scattered, initially immersed pseudothecium Phaeosphaeria herpotrichoides - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead, wet) dead, wet stem is decayed by fruitbody Mycena bulbosa - a bonnet (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

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

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
JUNCACEAE
(rushes and wood-rushes)

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
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae

Creative Commons License
Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by
Malcolm Storey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales