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Carduus tenuiflorus Curtis (Slender Thistle)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Carduus tenuiflorus In flower 28 June 2006 West Sussex England 3
Carduus tenuiflorus 10 June 2004 East Kent England 4
Carduus tenuiflorus Plant 27 June 2002 Dorset England 4

Suggested Literature

Carduus tenuiflorus 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 Carduus tenuiflorus:

Photos (live) live is parasitised by Golovinomyces cichoracearum - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
is foodplant of larva Terellia serratulae - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by amphigenous colony of Ramularia anamorph Ramularia cardui - an anamorphic fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes whitish or pale brown, often dark-bordered spots, 1-5mm diam.]

Carduus tenuiflorus 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)
Carduus
(a genus of thistles)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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