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Carlina vulgaris L. (Carline Thistle)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Carlina vulgaris 22 July 2004 North Hampshire England 6
Carlina vulgaris In fruit 20 November 1999 North Wiltshire England 5
Carlina vulgaris Plant 10 August 1968 East Sussex England 1

Suggested Literature

Carlina vulgaris may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)
Cardueae
(“thistles”)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Carlina vulgaris:

Photos (live) live is parasitised by Golovinomyces cichoracearum - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) Foreign Ing, B., 1990
(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia calcitrapae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Larinus planus - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) UK/Ireland Questionable Morris, M.G., 2002
Photos capitulum capitulum may contain larva Acanthiophilus helianthi - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by uredinoid, mostly epiphyllous aecium Puccinia calcitrapae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by mostly hypophyllous uredium Puccinia calcitrapae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by mostly hypophyllous telium Puccinia calcitrapae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos receptacle receptacle is galled by larva Acanthiophilus helianthi - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by colony of Stachybotrys dematiaceous anamorph Stachybotrys dichroa - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [usually about soil level while stem is still standing, more widespread when laying on ground]
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Veronaea dematiaceous anamorph Veronaea carlinae - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Carlina vulgaris may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Morris, M.G., 2002 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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