BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Festuca (fescue grasses)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #webs
Species Festuca altissima All. (Wood Fescue)       2
Species Festuca arenaria Osbeck (Rush-leaved Fescue)       3
Species Festuca arundinacea Schreber (Tall Fescue)       33
Species Festuca filiformis Pourret (Fine-leaved Sheep’s-fescue)     5  
Species Festuca gigantea (L.) Villars (Giant Fescue)     1 14
Species Festuca heterophylla Lam. (Various-leaved Fescue)       1
Species Festuca longifolia Thuill. (Blue Fescue)       4
Aggregate Festuca ovina agg. L. (sheep's fescue [agg.])       12
Species Festuca pratensis Hudson (Meadow Fescue)       16
Aggregate Festuca rubra agg. (L.) (red fescues) 1     36
Species Festuca vivipara (L.) Smith (Viviparous Sheep's-fescue)   1    

Suggested Literature

Festuca may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
POACEAE
(grasses - formerly Graminae)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Festuca:

may be infected and damaged by Laetisaria fuciformis - Red Thread Disease (Causal Agent) (Polyporales: Corticiaceae) Baldwin, N.A., 1990 [causes "Red Thread Disease"]
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by sorus Urocystis ulei - a smut fungus (Urocystales: Urocystaceae) Foreign Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
leaf-mine leaf-mine may house puparium Cerodontha flavocingulata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Major Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf-mine leaf-mine may house puparium Cerodontha pygmaea - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Major Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf-mine leaf-mine may house puparium Chromatomyia nigra - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972 [anterior spiracles projecting through the epidermis]
leaf leaf is mined by larva Agromyza nigrella - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf leaf is mined by larva Cerodontha flavocingulata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Major Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf leaf is mined by communal larva Cerodontha pygmaea - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Major Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf leaf is mined by larva Chromatomyia nigra - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine long, narrow, whitish]
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Pachynematus obductus - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Major Benson, R.B., 1958
leaf leaf may have puparium Cerodontha flavocingulata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Major Spencer, K.A., 1972
seed (fallen) fallen seed may be infected and damaged by long stalked apothecium Gloeotinia granigena - Blind Seed Of Rye Grass - Causative Organism (Helotiales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by immersed perithecium Phomatospora berkeleyi - a pyrenomycete (Xylariales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem internode (basal) stem internode (basal) is decayed by immersed pseudothecium Ophiosphaerella herpotricha - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem internode (basal) stem internode (basal) is decayed by immersed pycnidial anamorph Ophiosphaerella herpotricha - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

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

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
POACEAE
(grasses - formerly Graminae)

References

Baldwin, N.A., 1990 Fungal Diseases of Sports Turf
Benson, R.B., 1958 Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (c)
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
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006 Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi