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Agrostis stolonifera L. (Creeping Bent)

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Lansdown R.V. & Pankhurst T.J. Privately published

Agrostis stolonifera may also 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 stolonifera:

(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
leaf (dying) dying leaf is spotted by immersed pseudothecium Didymella hebridensis - an ascomycete (Pleosporales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes oblong or irregular, grey spots]
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 mostly epiphyllous, scattered uredium Puccinia recondita - Brown 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
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 is spotted by colony of Mastigosporium anamorph Mastigosporium rubricosum - an anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes elliptical purplish spots with grey centres]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by immersed, thin, subcuticular stromatic plates of Rhynchosporium anamorph Rhynchosporium orthosporum - an anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [Causes irregular blotches, up to 2.5cm long, at first water-soaked, later pale grey or greyish brown, sometimes zonate and often with dark reddish-brown margins.]
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
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (withered) withered leaf is decayed by colony of Dreschler dematiaceous anamorph Drechslera fugax - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Pleosporales: Pleosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf sheath (usually close to stem base) leaf sheath (usually close to stem base) may be infected and damaged by Fusarium anamorph Monographella nivalis - Snow Mould (Xylariales) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf-mine leaf-mine may house puparium Cerodontha flavocingulata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Major Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf leaf is mined by larva Cerodontha flavocingulata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Major Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf leaf may have puparium Cerodontha flavocingulata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Major Spencer, K.A., 1972
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 uredium Puccinia graminis ssp. graminicola - a black stem rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) 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 spotted by immersed, thin, subcuticular stromatic plates of Rhynchosporium anamorph Rhynchosporium orthosporum - an anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [Causes irregular blotches, up to 2.5cm long, at first water-soaked, later pale grey or greyish brown, sometimes zonate and often with dark reddish-brown margins.]
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
stem (live) live stem is parasitised by uredium Puccinia graminis ssp. graminicola - a black stem rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Agrostis stolonifera 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
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006 Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi

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