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Carex nigra (L.) Reichard (Common Sedge)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Carex nigra Plant 27 May 1974 North-east Yorkshire England 1

Suggested Literature

Carex nigra may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
CYPERACEAE
(cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges)
Carex
(sedges)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Carex nigra:

Photos (live) live is parasitised by telium Puccinia caricina var. pringsheimiana - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos (live) live is parasitised by uredium Puccinia caricina var. pringsheimiana - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by uredium Puccinia paludosa - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by telium Puccinia paludosa - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by telium Puccinia uliginosa - 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 uredium Puccinia uliginosa - 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
(live) live is parasitised by telium Puccinia urticata var. urticae-acutae - a nettle clustercup 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
(live) live is parasitised by uredium Puccinia urticata var. urticae-acutae - a nettle clustercup 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
is foodplant of larva or cocoon Plateumaris affinis - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) UK/Ireland Questionable Cox, M.L., 2007
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph Ascochyta sodalis - a coelomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by sorus Urocystis fischeri - a smut fungus (Urocystales: Urocystaceae) UK/Ireland Questionable Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf leaf is grazed by adult Plateumaris affinis - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Cox, M.L., 2007
Photos stem (upper parts) stem (upper parts) is parasitised by scattered sporodochium Myriosclerotinia sulcatula - a discomycete (Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos stem stem is parasitised by sclerotioid, long and slender stalked apothecium Myriosclerotinia sulcatula - a discomycete (Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos stem stem is parasitised by sclerotium Myriosclerotinia sulcatula - a discomycete (Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Carex nigra may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
CYPERACEAE
(cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges)
Carex
(sedges)

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
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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