Melampyrum pratense L.
(Common Cow-wheat)

Interactions where Melampyrum pratense 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
		has sap sucked by adult			Adomerus biguttatus	Cow Wheat Shieldbug	Hemiptera: Cydnidae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Cydnidae/Adomerus biguttatus/	Adomerus biguttatus	cow wheat shieldbug				adult	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Orobanchaceae/Melampyrum pratense/	Melampyrum pratense	common cow-wheat					Major			adult sucks sap of
		has sap sucked by nymph			Adomerus biguttatus	Cow Wheat Shieldbug	Hemiptera: Cydnidae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Cydnidae/Adomerus biguttatus/	Adomerus biguttatus	cow wheat shieldbug				nymph	Foodplant / sap sucker			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Orobanchaceae/Melampyrum pratense/	Melampyrum pratense	common cow-wheat					Major			nymph sucks sap of
(live)		live is parasitised by			Podosphaera fusca	a powdery mildew	Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Podosphaera fusca/	Podosphaera fusca	a powdery mildew					Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Orobanchaceae/Melampyrum pratense/	Melampyrum pratense	common cow-wheat		live						parasitises live
(live)		live is parasitised by telium			Coleosporium tussilaginis	a rust fungus	Pucciniales: Coleosporiaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Coleosporiaceae/Coleosporium tussilaginis/	Coleosporium tussilaginis	a rust fungus				telium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Orobanchaceae/Melampyrum pratense/	Melampyrum pratense	common cow-wheat		live						telium parasitises live
(live)		live is parasitised by uredium			Coleosporium tussilaginis	a rust fungus	Pucciniales: Coleosporiaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Coleosporiaceae/Coleosporium tussilaginis/	Coleosporium tussilaginis	a rust fungus				uredium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Orobanchaceae/Melampyrum pratense/	Melampyrum pratense	common cow-wheat		live						uredium parasitises live
(live)		live is parasitised by pycnium			Puccinia nemoralis	Cow-wheat Clustercup Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	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/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia nemoralis/	Puccinia nemoralis	cow-wheat clustercup rust				pycnium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Orobanchaceae/Melampyrum pratense/	Melampyrum pratense	common cow-wheat		live						pycnium parasitises live
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by mainly hypophyllous, punctiform to effuse, greyish white caespituli of Ramaria anamorph			Ramularia melampyri	(An Anamorphic Fungus)	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Ramularia melampyri/	Ramularia melampyri	(an anamorphic fungus)		mainly hypophyllous, punctiform to effuse, greyish white	caespituli	Ramaria anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Orobanchaceae/Melampyrum pratense/	Melampyrum pratense	common cow-wheat		live	leaf					mainly hypophyllous, punctiform to effuse, greyish white caespituli of Ramaria anamorph causes spots on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is swollen by epiphyllous aecium			Puccinia nemoralis	Cow-wheat Clustercup Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	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/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia nemoralis/	Puccinia nemoralis	cow-wheat clustercup rust		epiphyllous		aecium	Foodplant / false gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Orobanchaceae/Melampyrum pratense/	Melampyrum pratense	common cow-wheat		live	leaf					epiphyllous aecium causes swelling of live leaf
root (live)		live root is parasitised by live root			Melampyrum sylvaticum	Small Cow-wheat	Lamiales: Orobanchaceae	Small Cow-wheat Melampyrum sylvaticum L.: Scrophulariaceae in England, Tennant, D.J., 2008	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Orobanchaceae/Melampyrum sylvaticum/	Melampyrum sylvaticum	small cow-wheat		live	root		Foodplant / hemiparasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Orobanchaceae/Melampyrum pratense/	Melampyrum pratense	common cow-wheat		live	root					live root is hemiparasitic on live root

Author & Year	Title	Source
Braun, U., 1998	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II	Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes, 2, 493pp, IHW-Verlag
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Ing, B., 1990	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews	Mycologist Vol 4 (1) et seq.
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
Moore, W.C., 1959	British Parasitic Fungi	430pp, Cambridge University Press
Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles	Wayside & Woodland Series, 1959 edition, 436pp, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.
Tennant, D.J., 2008	Small Cow-wheat Melampyrum sylvaticum L.: Scrophulariaceae in England	Watsonia Vol 27, No 1: 23-36.

Melampyrum pratense (Common Cow-wheat) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Melampyrum
(cow-wheats)

OROBANCHACEAE
(eyebrights, cow-wheats, louseworts & broomrapes)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Melampyrum pratense (Common Cow-wheat)
Genus	Melampyrum (cow-wheats)
Family	OROBANCHACEAE (eyebrights, cow-wheats, louseworts & broomrapes)
Order	LAMIALES (dead-nettles, eye-brights, foxgloves and speedwells)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Melampyrum pratense is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Orobanchaceae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Melampyrum pratense (Common Cow-wheat)

Identification Works

Handling & Magnification	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Tennant, D.J.	2008	Small Cow-wheat Melampyrum sylvaticum L.: Scrophulariaceae in England	Watsonia Vol 27, No 1: 23-36.

Melampyrum pratense (Common Cow-wheat) may also 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 Melampyrum pratense (Common Cow-wheat):

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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