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Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth (Lady Fern)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Athyrium filix-femina Plant 3 July 2005 Brecon Wales 2
Athyrium filix-femina Plant 13 July 2002 Berks England 15 3
Athyrium filix-femina Plant 1 August 1971 South Devon England 1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Byfield, A., 2006 (Colour photograph of A. felix-femina "Corymbiferum") Victorian pteridomania - Britain's fern craze

Athyrium filix-femina 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 Athyrium filix-femina:

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
debris (dead, decayed) dead, decayed debris is decayed by fruitbody Phlebiella filicina - a resupinate fungus (Polyporales: Xenasmataceae) Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
debris (dead, decaying) dead, decaying debris is decayed by fruitbody Typhula todei - a minute club fungus (Agaricales: Typhulaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
frond frond is grazed by larva Strombocerus delicatulus - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Major Benson, R.B., 1952
frond frond is grazed by larva Strongylogaster macula - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Major Benson, R.B., 1952
frond frond is grazed by larva Strongylogaster mixta - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Restricted Benson, R.B., 1952
frond frond is parasitised by hypophyllous colony of Cercosporella anamorph Cercosporella filicis-feminae - an anamorphic fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by telium Milesina kriegeriana - a fern rust (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
leaf (wet, dead) wet, dead leaf is decayed by hypophyllous, sunken, opening by a pore uredium Milesina kriegeriana - a fern rust (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
petiole (base) petiole (base) is decayed by densely clustered, thick-stalked apothecium Allophylaria campanuliformis - a discomycete (Helotiales: Helotiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
rhachis rhachis may contain larva Blasticotoma filiceti - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Blasticotomidae) UK/Ireland Benson, R.B., 1951
stem stem may contain larva Heptamelus ochroleucus - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Major Benson, R.B., 1952

Athyrium filix-femina may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

PTEROPSIDA
(ferns)
Athyrium
(lady ferns)

References

Benson, R.B., 1951 Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (a)
Benson, R.B., 1952 Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (b)
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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