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Arctium lappa L. (Greater Burdock)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Arctium lappa In flower 15 July 2007 Berks England 5
Arctium lappa In bud 29 June 2006 East Sussex England 5
Arctium lappa In bud 8 July 2005 Oxon England 3
Arctium lappa Plant 2 September 2000 Berks England 5
Arctium lappa In fruit 24 August 2000 Berks England 18 3

Suggested Literature

Arctium lappa 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 Arctium lappa:

(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia calcitrapae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos capitulum capitulum may contain larva Tephritis bardanae - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland White, I.M., 1988
Photos capitulum capitulum may contain larva Terellia tussilaginis - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland White, I.M., 1988
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by conidial anamorph Erysiphe depressa - Burdock Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by cleistothecium Erysiphe depressa - Burdock Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by uredinoid, epiphyllous aecium Puccinia calcitrapae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by mostly hypophyllous telium Puccinia calcitrapae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by mostly hypophyllous uredium Puccinia calcitrapae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by amphigenous colony of Ramularia anamorph Ramularia filaris var. lappae - an anamorphic fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes round or angular, brown spots]
leaf -> midrib -> stem leaf -> midrib -> stem is mined by larva (young) Melanagromyza lappae - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1976
leaf leaf is mined by larva Phytomyza lappae - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972 [long, white, linear mine, often next to vein]
Photos leaf leaf is mined by larva Trypeta zoe - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign Questionable White, I.M., 1988
Photos leaf leaf is grazed by nocturnal larva Tenthredo mesomelas - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Benson, R.B., 1952
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by effuse colony of Pleurophragmium dematiaceous anamorph Pleurophragmium parvisporum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by superficial colony of Sarcopodium dematiaceous anamorph Sarcopodium circinatum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by fruitbody Erythricium laetum - a resupinate basidiomycete (Polyporales: Phanerochaetaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by fruitbody Hyphodermella corrugata - a resupinate fungus (Polyporales: Phanerochaetaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem (dead, overwintered) dead, overwintered stem is decayed by erumpent apothecium Pyrenopeziza arctii - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead, overwintered) dead, overwintered stem is decayed by Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph Diaporthe arctii - a pyrenomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead, very dark grey) dead, very dark grey stem is decayed by immersed perithecium Diaporthe arctii - a pyrenomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos stem (live) live stem is parasitised by cleistothecium Erysiphe depressa - Burdock Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos stem (live) live stem is parasitised by conidial anamorph Erysiphe depressa - Burdock Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (near base) (dead) dead stem (near base) is decayed by effuse colony of Pseudospiropes dematiaceous anamorph Pseudospiropes subuliferus - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Pleosporales: Melanommataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem stem may contain larva (older) Melanagromyza lappae - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1976
Spencer, K.A., 1972
stem stem may house puparium Melanagromyza lappae - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972

Arctium lappa 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)
Arctium
(burdocks)

References

Benson, R.B., 1952 Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (b)
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
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
Spencer, K.A., 1976 The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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