BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Festuca (fescue grasses)

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon
Species	Festuca altissima All. (Wood Fescue)			2
Species	Festuca arenaria Osbeck (Rush-leaved Fescue)			3
Species	Festuca arundinacea Schreber (Tall Fescue)			33
Species	Festuca filiformis Pourret (Fine-leaved Sheep’s-fescue)		5
Species	Festuca gigantea (L.) Villars (Giant Fescue)		1	14
Species	Festuca glauca sens.str.			2
Species	Festuca heterophylla Lam. (Various-leaved Fescue)			1
Species	Festuca longifolia Thuill. (Blue Fescue)			4
Aggregate	Festuca ovina agg. L. (sheep's fescue [agg.])			13
Species	Festuca pratensis Hudson (Meadow Fescue)			16
Aggregate	Festuca rubra agg. (L.) (red fescues)			39
Species	Festuca vivipara (L.) Smith (Viviparous Sheep's-fescue)	1

Suggested Literature

Festuca may be covered by literature listed under:

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Festuca:

	(live)	live may be infected and damaged by	Laetisaria fuciformis - Red Thread Disease (Causal Agent) (Polyporales: Corticiaceae)		Baldwin, N.A., 1990 [causes "Red Thread Disease"]
	debris	debris is decayed by fruitbody	Psathyrella flexispora - a brittlestem (Agaricales: Psathyrellaceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [in sand dunes]
	leaf (live)	live leaf is parasitised by sorus	Urocystis ulei - a smut fungus (Urocystales: Urocystaceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006
	leaf-mine	leaf-mine may house puparium	Cerodontha flavocingulata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae)		Spencer, K.A., 1972
	leaf-mine	leaf-mine may house puparium	Cerodontha pygmaea - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae)		Spencer, K.A., 1972
	leaf-mine	leaf-mine may house puparium	Chromatomyia nigra - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae)		Spencer, K.A., 1972 [anterior spiracles projecting through the epidermis]
	leaf	leaf is mined by larva	Agromyza nigrella - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae)		Spencer, K.A., 1972
	leaf	leaf is mined by larva	Cerodontha flavocingulata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae)		Spencer, K.A., 1972
	leaf	leaf is mined by communal larva	Cerodontha pygmaea - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae)		Spencer, K.A., 1972
	leaf	leaf is mined by larva	Chromatomyia nigra - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae)		Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine long, narrow, whitish]
	leaf	leaf is grazed by larva	Pachynematus obductus - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)		Benson, R.B., 1958
	leaf	leaf may have puparium	Cerodontha flavocingulata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae)		Spencer, K.A., 1972
	seed (fallen)	fallen seed may be infected and damaged by long stalked apothecium	Gloeotinia granigena - Blind Seed Of Rye Grass - Causative Organism (Helotiales)		Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
	stem (dead)	dead stem is decayed by immersed perithecium	Phomatospora berkeleyi - a pyrenomycete (Xylariales)		Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
	stem internode (basal)	stem internode (basal) is decayed by immersed pseudothecium	Ophiosphaerella herpotricha - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae)		Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
	stem internode (basal)	stem internode (basal) is decayed by immersed pycnidial anamorph	Ophiosphaerella herpotricha - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae)		Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Festuca may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

References