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Agrostis capillaris L. (Common Bent)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Agrostis capillaris Plant 23 July 1978 Surrey England 2

Suggested Literature

Agrostis capillaris may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
POACEAE
(grasses - formerly Graminae)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Agrostis capillaris:

(live) live is parasitised by Blumeria graminis - Grass Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
culm (live) live culm is parasitised by embedded sorus Urocystis agrostidis - a smut fungus (Urocystales: Urocystaceae) UK/Ireland Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
inflorescence (live) live inflorescence may be infected and damaged by pycnidium of Dilophospora coelomycetous anamorph Lidophia graminis - Twist (Dothideales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [Inflorescences become distorted and twisted.]
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous, scattered or in patches uredium Puccinia coronata - Crown Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Puccinia coronata - Crown Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [sometimes arranged in circles around the uredia]
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous uredium Puccinia graminis ssp. graminicola - a black stem rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous, subepidermal telium Puccinia recondita - Brown Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by mostly epiphyllous, scattered uredium Puccinia recondita - Brown Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by embedded sorus Urocystis agrostidis - a smut fungus (Urocystales: Urocystaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
leaf (live) live leaf may be infected and damaged by immersed, often in rows between veins pycnidium of Dilophospora coelomycetous anamorph Lidophia graminis - Twist (Dothideales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [There is often stromatic tissue between rows of pycnidia. Causes a die back from the tips.]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph Ascochyta agrostidis - a coelomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by colony of Drechsler dematiaceous anamorph Pyrenophora erythrospila - a fungus (Pleosporales: Pleosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causing straw-coloured spots up to 2.5mm long, surrounded by a reddish border]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by sporodochium Hadrotrichum virescens - an anamorphic pyrenomycete (Xylariales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes dark olive-green to brown spots]
Photos leaf (live, blistered) live, blistered leaf is spotted by long, linear, erumpent sorus Urocystis agropyri - a stripe smut of grasses (Urocystales: Urocystaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf leaf is spotted by pycnidium of Actinothyrium coelomycetous anamorph Ascochyta leptospora - a coelomycete Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes fawn spots with reddish-purple borders]
ovary ovary may be infected and damaged by internal sorus Tilletia sphaerococca - Agrostis Bunt (Tilletiales: Tilletiaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
sheath (live) live sheath is parasitised by linear telium Puccinia graminis ssp. graminicola - a black stem rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
sheath (live) live sheath is parasitised by uredium Puccinia graminis ssp. graminicola - a black stem rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by fruitbody Typhula incarnata - a minute club fungus (Agaricales: Typhulaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem (dying) dying stem is decayed by fruitbody Typhula incarnata - a minute club fungus (Agaricales: Typhulaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem (live) live stem is parasitised by linear telium Puccinia graminis ssp. graminicola - a black stem rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Agrostis capillaris may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
POACEAE
(grasses - formerly Graminae)
Agrostis
(bent grasses)

References

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
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006 Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi

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