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Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott (Common Male Fern)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Dryopteris filix-mas Plant 22 June 1974 South-east Yorkshire England 1
Dryopteris filix-mas Plant 1 August 1971 South Devon England 2

Suggested Literature

Dryopteris filix-mas may 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 Dryopteris filix-mas:

debris (dead, decayed) dead, decayed debris is decayed by fruitbody Mycena pterigena - a bonnet (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
frond (dead, decayed) dead, decayed frond is decayed by fruitbody Ramariopsis crocea - a fairy club (Agaricales: Clavariaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
frond (dead, decayed) dead, decayed frond is decayed by fruitbody Trechispora microspora - a basidiomycete fungus (Polyporales: Sistotremataceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
frond (moribund) moribund frond is parasitised by Herpobasidium filicinum - a ustilaginomycete (Platygloeaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
frond (sickly) sickly frond is parasitised by Herpobasidium filicinum - a ustilaginomycete (Platygloeaceae) UK/Ireland 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 amphigenous ascoma Taphrina athyrii - a tongue fungus (Taphrinales: Taphrinaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes small, but sometimes very abundant, angular, brown, unthickened spots covered by a whitish bloom; pinnules sometimes turn black and curl]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by ascoma Taphrina vestergrenii - a tongue fungus (Taphrinales: Taphrinaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes small, yellow blotches]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by telium Milesina carpatorum - 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 [causes brown spots]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by telium Milesina kriegeriana - a fern rust (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (rachis & veins) (dead) dead leaf (rachis & veins) is decayed by subcuticular thyriothecium Leptopeltis filicina - a fly speck fungus (Microthyriales: Leptopeltidaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (wet, dead) wet, dead leaf is decayed by hypophyllous uredium Milesina carpatorum - 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 (wet, dead) wet, dead leaf is decayed by hypophyllous, sunken, opening by a pore uredium Milesina kriegeriana - a fern rust (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
rachis (base) rachis (base) is decayed by densely clustered, thick-stalked apothecium Allophylaria campanuliformis - a discomycete (Helotiales: Helotiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
rachis (dead) dead rachis is decayed by short-stalked apothecium Psilachnum chrysostigmum - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos stem (dead,) dead, stem is decayed by fruitbody Lycoperdon pyriforme - Stump Puffball (Agaricales: Lycoperdaceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Dryopteris filix-mas may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

PTEROPSIDA
(ferns)
Dryopteris
(buckler ferns)
Dryopteris filix-mas agg.
(male fern)

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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