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Cirsium palustre (L.) Scop. (Marsh Thistle)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Cirsium palustre In flower 26 June 2006 East Sussex England 3
Cirsium palustre Plant 15 July 2000 Berks England 9 4
Cirsium palustre Plant 14 May 2000 Berks England 3
Cirsium palustre Plant 11 March 2000 Dorset England 3
Cirsium palustre Plant 30 June 1974 North-east Yorkshire England 2
Cirsium palustre Plant 10 July 1970 Surrey England 1

Suggested Literature

Cirsium palustre 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 Cirsium palustre:

(live) live is parasitised by effuse colony of Botryosporium anamorph Botryosporium pulchrum - an anamorphic fungus Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos (live) live is parasitised by Golovinomyces cichoracearum - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia calcitrapae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia dioicae var. dioicae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
(live) live is parasitised by aecium Puccinia dioicae var. dioicae - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [only in the presence of Carex dioica]
is foodplant of larva Terellia ruficauda - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland White, I.M., 1988
Photos is foodplant of larva Urophora stylata - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland White, I.M., 1988
is parasitised by Erysiphe mayorii - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Chaetostomella cylindrica - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Chaetostomella cylindrica - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Tephritis conura - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Terellia winthemi - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland Questionable White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Terellia winthemi - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
Photos capitulum capitulum may contain larva Xyphosia miliaria - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) UK/Ireland White, I.M., 1988
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by uredinoid, mostly 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
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous telium Puccinia cnici-oleracei - Yarrow Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (upper surface) (windowed) windowed leaf (upper surface) is grazed by larva Lema cyanella - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007 [larvae dorsally carry a cover of excrement]
leaf (upper surface) leaf (upper surface) is mined by larva Phytomyza cirsii - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Major Spencer, K.A., 1972 [shallow whitish mine]
leaf-mine leaf-mine may house puparium Phytomyza autumnalis - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf leaf is mined by larva Phytomyza albiceps - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Foreign Minor Spencer, K.A., 1972 [long, irregular, linear mine; frass in large widely-spaced clumps]
leaf leaf is mined by larva Phytomyza autumnalis - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine long, distinctly greenish]
leaf leaf is grazed by adult Lema cyanella - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007
leaf leaf may have puparium Phytomyza cirsii - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Major Spencer, K.A., 1972
rosette rosette is foodplant of larva Cheilosia fraterna - a hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae) Rotheray, G.E., 1993 [look for small holes in the undersides of rosette leaves]
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by pycnidium of Rhabdospora coelomycetous anamorph Ophiobolus cirsii - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Leptosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by scattered, immersed, neck erumpent pseudothecium Ophiobolus cirsii - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Leptosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by erumpent apothecium Pyrenopeziza adenostylidis - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by erumpent apothecium Pyrenopeziza carduorum - a discomycete (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by subsessile apothecium Psilachnum rubrotinctum - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by sessile apothecium Unguicularia incarnatina - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem stem is foodplant of larva Cheilosia albipila - a hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae) Rotheray, G.E., 1993
stem stem is foodplant of larva Cheilosia fraterna - a hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae) Rotheray, G.E., 1993 [look for small holes in the undersides of rosette leaves]

Cirsium palustre 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)
Cirsium
(a genus of thistles)

References

Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
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
Rotheray, G.E., 1993 Colour Guide to Hoverfly Larvae (Diptera, Syrphidae) in Britain and Europe
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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