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Dryopteris dilatata (Hoffm.) A.Gray (Broad Buckler-fern)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Dryopteris dilatata Plant 1 August 1971 South Devon England 1

Suggested Literature

Dryopteris dilatata 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 dilatata:

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 telium Milesina kriegeriana - a fern rust (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (petiole & veins) (dead) dead leaf (petiole & 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, sunken, opening by a pore uredium Milesina kriegeriana - a fern rust (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
petiole petiole is decayed by becoming erumpent ascocarp Dangeardiella fusiformis - an ascomycete (Dothideales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
rachis (dead) dead rachis is decayed by effuse colony of Tricladium anamorph Tricladium castaneicola - an anamorphic fungus (Helotiales: Helotiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Dryopteris dilatata may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

PTEROPSIDA
(ferns)
Dryopteris
(buckler ferns)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook

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