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Trifolium medium L. (Zigzag Clover)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Trifolium medium Plant 21 July 1971 East Sussex England 2

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Pratt, E., 2005 More plants at variance with floras

Trifolium medium may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Trifolium medium:

(live) live is parasitised by cleistothecium Erysiphe trifolii - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by conidial anamorph Erysiphe trifolii - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
is associate of adult Bruchidius varius - a seed beetle (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) UK/Ireland Major Cox, M.L., 2007
inflorescence inflorescence may contain larva Apion assimile - a clover seed weevil (Coleoptera: Apionidae) Foreign Morris, M.G., 1990
inflorescence inflorescence may contain larva Apion trifolii - a clover seed weevil (Coleoptera: Apionidae) Morris, M.G., 1990
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Uromyces fallens - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Questionable Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous uredium Uromyces fallens - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Questionable Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous pycnium Uromyces fallens - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Questionable Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous aecium Uromyces fallens - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Questionable Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by amphigenous pseudothecium Mycosphaerella carinthiaca - an ascomycete (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes angular, brown spots, enclosed by veins, which begin at the leaf edge]
seed? seed? may contain larva Bruchidius varius - a seed beetle (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) UK/Ireland Cox, M.L., 2007

Trifolium medium may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
FABACEAE
(vetches, peas and beans - formerly Leguminosae or Papilionaceae)
Trifolium
(clovers)

References

Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Morris, M.G., 1990 Orthocerous Weevils

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