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Symphytum asperum x officinale (S. x uplandicum) Nyman (Russian Comfrey)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Symphytum asperum x officinale (S. x uplandicum) Plant 11 May 2002 Berks England 8 11
Symphytum asperum x officinale (S. x uplandicum) Plant 17 July 1999 Berks England 7
Symphytum asperum x officinale (S. x uplandicum) Plant 19 May 1971 East Norfolk England 1

Suggested Literature

Symphytum asperum x officinale (S. x uplandicum) may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Symphytum asperum x officinale (S. x uplandicum):

(live) live is parasitised by cleistothecium Golovinomyces cynoglossi - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by conidial anamorph Golovinomyces cynoglossi - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf may be infected and damaged by hypophyllous, often covering whole leaf uredium Melampsorella symphyti - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf (live) live leaf may be infected and damaged by hypophyllous telium Melampsorella symphyti - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Symphytum asperum x officinale (S. x uplandicum) may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
BORAGINACEAE
(comfreys and forget-me-nots)
Symphytum
(comfreys)

References

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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