Linum catharticum L.
(Fairy Flax, Purging Flax)

Interactions where Linum catharticum is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
		seedling may be infected and damaged by acervulus of Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph			Colletotrichum lini	a coelomycete	Glomerellaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Glomerellaceae/Colletotrichum lini/	Colletotrichum lini	a coelomycete			acervulus	Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Linaceae/Linum catharticum/	Linum catharticum	fairy flax, purging flax				seedling				acervulus of Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages seedling
(live)		live stem is parasitised by uredium			Melampsora lini var lini	a rust fungus	Pucciniales: Melampsoraceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Melampsoraceae/Melampsora lini var. lini/	Melampsora lini var. lini	a rust fungus				uredium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Linaceae/Linum catharticum/	Linum catharticum	fairy flax, purging flax		live		stem			(5-10)	uredium parasitises live stem
(live)		live leaf is parasitised by uredium			Melampsora lini var lini	a rust fungus	Pucciniales: Melampsoraceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Melampsoraceae/Melampsora lini var. lini/	Melampsora lini var. lini	a rust fungus				uredium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Linaceae/Linum catharticum/	Linum catharticum	fairy flax, purging flax		live		leaf			(5-10)	uredium parasitises live leaf
(live)		live leaf is parasitised by telium			Melampsora lini var lini	a rust fungus	Pucciniales: Melampsoraceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Melampsoraceae/Melampsora lini var. lini/	Melampsora lini var. lini	a rust fungus				telium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Linaceae/Linum catharticum/	Linum catharticum	fairy flax, purging flax		live		leaf			(5-10)	telium parasitises live leaf
(live)		live stem is parasitised by telium			Melampsora lini var lini	a rust fungus	Pucciniales: Melampsoraceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Melampsoraceae/Melampsora lini var. lini/	Melampsora lini var. lini	a rust fungus				telium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Linaceae/Linum catharticum/	Linum catharticum	fairy flax, purging flax		live		stem			(5-10)	telium parasitises live stem
leaf		leaf is grazed by nocturnal larva			Rhogogaster chambersi	a sawfly	Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae	Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (b), Benson, R.B., 1952	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Tenthredinidae/Rhogogaster chambersi/	Rhogogaster chambersi	a sawfly		nocturnal		larva	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Linaceae/Linum catharticum/	Linum catharticum	fairy flax, purging flax			leaf		Sole			nocturnal larva grazes on leaf

Author & Year	Title	Source
Benson, R.B., 1952	Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (b)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol VI, Part 2(b), 137pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota	517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Linum catharticum (Fairy Flax, Purging Flax) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Linum
(flaxes)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Linum catharticum (Fairy Flax, Purging Flax)
Genus	Linum (flaxes)
Family	LINACEAE (flaxes)
Order	MALPIGHIALES (poplars, willows, St John’s worts, spurges and violets)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Linum catharticum is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Linaceae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Linum catharticum (Fairy Flax, Purging Flax)

Linum catharticum (Fairy Flax, Purging Flax) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Linum catharticum (Fairy Flax, Purging Flax):

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

BioImages

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