Stellaria alsine Grimm
(Bog Stitchwort)

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

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see '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
anther (live)		live anther may be infected and damaged by embedded sorus			Microbotryum stellariae	Chickweed Anther Smut	Microbotryales: Microbotryaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi, Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Microbotryales/Microbotryaceae/Microbotryum stellariae/	Microbotryum stellariae	chickweed anther smut		embedded		sorus	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria alsine/	Stellaria alsine	bog stitchwort		live	anther					embedded sorus infects and damages live anther
leaf		leaf is grazed by larva			Hypera diversipunctata	a weevil	Coleoptera: Curculionidae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Hypera (Boreohypera) diversipunctata/	Hypera (Boreohypera) diversipunctata	a weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria alsine/	Stellaria alsine	bog stitchwort			leaf					larva grazes on leaf
leaf (dead, bleached)		dead, bleached leaf is decayed by scattered, few, mainly epiphyllous pycnidium of Phyllosticta coelomycetous anamorph			Phyllosticta holosteae	a coelomycete	Botryosphaeriales: Phyllostictaceae	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Botryosphaeriales/Phyllostictaceae/Phyllosticta holosteae/	Phyllosticta holosteae	a coelomycete		scattered, few, mainly epiphyllous	pycnidium	Phyllosticta coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria alsine/	Stellaria alsine	bog stitchwort		dead, bleached	leaf				(7)	scattered, few, mainly epiphyllous pycnidium of Phyllosticta coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on dead, bleached leaf
leaf (dead)		dead leaf is decayed by aggregated, immersed, honey-fuscous, narrowly dark circled around the pore pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph			Ascochyta stellariae	a coelomycete	Pleosporales	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Ascochyta stellariae/	Ascochyta stellariae	a coelomycete		aggregated, immersed, honey-fuscous, narrowly dark circled around the pore	pycnidium	Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria alsine/	Stellaria alsine	bog stitchwort		dead	leaf				(5)	aggregated, immersed, honey-fuscous, narrowly dark circled around the pore pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on dead leaf
leaf (fading)		fading leaf is parasitised by aggregated, immersed, honey-fuscous, narrowly dark circled around the pore pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph			Ascochyta stellariae	a coelomycete	Pleosporales	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Ascochyta stellariae/	Ascochyta stellariae	a coelomycete		aggregated, immersed, honey-fuscous, narrowly dark circled around the pore	pycnidium	Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria alsine/	Stellaria alsine	bog stitchwort		fading	leaf				(5)	aggregated, immersed, honey-fuscous, narrowly dark circled around the pore pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph parasitises fading leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph			Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria alsine/	Stellaria alsine	bog stitchwort		live	leaf					mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium			Puccinia arenariae	Sweet William Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia arenariae/	Puccinia arenariae	sweet william rust		hypophyllous		telium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria alsine/	Stellaria alsine	bog stitchwort		live	leaf					hypophyllous telium parasitises live leaf
stem (lower parts) (living)		living stem (lower parts) is parasitised by solitary or in small groups, stipitate apothecium			Lanzia stellariae	a discomycete	Helotiales: Rutstroemiaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 A Mycologist’s Diary, Robinson, K., 2007	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Rutstroemiaceae/Lanzia stellariae/	Lanzia stellariae	a discomycete		solitary or in small groups, stipitate		apothecium	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria alsine/	Stellaria alsine	bog stitchwort		living	stem (lower parts)				(5-10)	solitary or in small groups, stipitate apothecium parasitises living stem (lower parts)
stem (live)		live stem is spotted by whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph			Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria alsine/	Stellaria alsine	bog stitchwort		live	stem					whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live stem

Stellaria alsine (Bog Stitchwort) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Stellaria
(chickweeds)

CARYOPHYLLACEAE
(chickweeds, stitchworts and campions, carnation)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

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
Grove, W.B., 1935	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia	Vol I, 488pp, Cambridge University Press
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
Morris, M.G., 2002	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, Part 17b, 149pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Robinson, K., 2007	A Mycologist’s Diary	Field Mycology Vol 8 (4): 134-138.
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W., 2006	Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi	Mycologist 20 (3): 90-96.

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Stellaria alsine (Bog Stitchwort)
Genus	Stellaria (chickweeds)
Family	CARYOPHYLLACEAE (chickweeds, stitchworts and campions, carnation)
Order	CARYOPHYLLALES (pinks, goosefoots and docks)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Stellaria alsine is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Caryophyllaceae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Stellaria alsine (Bog Stitchwort)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
in the hand ()	Lansdown R.V. & Pankhurst T.J.		Field Guide to the Identification of Difficult Aquatic Plants of the New Forest
	Poland, J.	2007	Maddening Mimics: a belated reply	BSBI News 106: 4-6.

Stellaria alsine (Bog Stitchwort) 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 Stellaria alsine (Bog Stitchwort):

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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