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Neottia nidus-avis (L.) Rich. (Bird’s-nest Orchid)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Neottia nidus-avis Plant 10 June 2003 Monmouth United Kingdom 3
Neottia nidus-avis Plant 14 June 1981 Surrey England 4
Neottia nidus-avis Plant 21 June 1975 Surrey England 3
Neottia nidus-avis Plant 20 July 1968 East Sussex England 2

Suggested Literature

General Works

Leake, J.R., 2005 Plants parasitic on fungi: unearthing the fungi in myco-heterotrophs and debunking the "saprophytic" plant myth

Neottia nidus-avis 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)
ORCHIDACEAE
(orchids)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Neottia nidus-avis is associated with:

Photos plant Sebacina - a genus of jelly fungi (Tremellales: Exidiaceae) plant parasitises ectomycorrhiza Spooner, B. & Roberts, P., 2005

Associated with Neottia nidus-avis:

leaf (live) live leaf is mined by larva Chyliza vittata - a psilid fly (Diptera: Psilidae) UK/Ireland Minor Robbins, R., 1990 [Pupariates internally, usually just above the rootstock. Attacked stems may wilt and die.]
rootstock (live) live rootstock is mined by larva Chyliza vittata - a psilid fly (Diptera: Psilidae) UK/Ireland Robbins, R., 1990 [Pupariates internally, usually just above the rootstock. Attacked stems may wilt and die.]
stem (live) live stem is mined by larva Chyliza vittata - a psilid fly (Diptera: Psilidae) UK/Ireland Robbins, R., 1990 [Pupariates internally, usually just above the rootstock. Attacked stems may wilt and die.]
stem (usu just above rootstock) (live) live stem (usu just above rootstock) may house puparium Chyliza vittata - a psilid fly (Diptera: Psilidae) UK/Ireland Robbins, R., 1990

Neottia nidus-avis may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
ORCHIDACEAE
(orchids)

References

Robbins, R., 1990 A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the midlands
Spooner, B. & Roberts, P., 2005 Fungi

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