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Phyllitis scolopendrium (L.) Newman (Hart’s Tongue Fern)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Phyllitis scolopendrium Plant 29 May 2005 East Gloucestershire England 1
Phyllitis scolopendrium Plant 18 July 2000 Berks England 1
Phyllitis scolopendrium Plant 27 November 1999 Berks England 3 2 8
Phyllitis scolopendrium Plant 3 May 1981 North Wiltshire England 1
Phyllitis scolopendrium Plant 25 May 1975 East Sussex England 1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Byfield, A., 2006 (Colour photographs of varieties) Victorian pteridomania - Britain's fern craze

Phyllitis scolopendrium may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
PTERIDOPHYTA
(ferns and allies)
PTEROPSIDA
(ferns)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Phyllitis scolopendrium:

debris (decayed) decayed debris is decayed by fruitbody Athelopsis galzinii - a basidiomycete (Polyporales: Atheliaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos frond (live, over-wintered, extensively browned) live, over-wintered, extensively browned frond is parasitised by embedded telium Milesina scolopendrii - a fern rust (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is mined by larva Chromatomyia scolopendri - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine pale yellowish green, unusually long, up to 10cm, ]
Photos leaf (sterile) (live, over-wintered, extensively browned) live, over-wintered, extensively browned leaf (sterile) may be infected and damaged by mostly hypophyllous uredium Milesina scolopendrii - a fern rust (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [mostly on young plants]
leaf-mine leaf-mine may house puparium Chromatomyia scolopendri - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972
leaf leaf may have puparium Chromatomyia scolopendri - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972

Phyllitis scolopendrium may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

PTEROPSIDA
(ferns)

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
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae

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