Eleocharis R. Br.
(spike-rushes)

Interactions where Eleocharis 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
is decayed by effuse colony of Coremiella dematiaceous anamorph Coremiella cubispora a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995
 /Fungi/Ascomycota/Coremiella cubispora/Coremiella cubisporaa dematiaceous anamorphic funguseffusecolonyCoremiella dematiaceous anamorph Foodplant / saprobe /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Cyperaceae/Eleocharis/Eleocharisspike-rushes (7-10)effuse colony of Coremiella dematiaceous anamorph is saprobic on
pollen pollen is foodplant of adult Questionable Donacia thalassina a reed beetle Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007
 /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Donacia thalassina/Donacia thalassinaa reed beetleadult Foodplant / feeds on /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Cyperaceae/Eleocharis/Eleocharisspike-rushes?pollen (5)adult feeds on pollen
root root is foodplant of larva Questionable Donacia thalassina a reed beetle Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007
 /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Donacia thalassina/Donacia thalassinaa reed beetlelarva Foodplant / feeds on /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Cyperaceae/Eleocharis/Eleocharisspike-rushes?root larva feeds on root
stem (live) live stem is galled by UK/Ireland Physoderma heleocharidis a chytridomycete fungus Blastocladiales: Physodermataceae British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungi, Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2002
 /Fungi/Chytridiomycota/Chytridiomycetes/Blastocladiales/Physodermataceae/Physoderma heleocharidis/Physoderma heleocharidisa chytridomycete fungus Foodplant / gallUK and/or Eire /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Cyperaceae/Eleocharis/Eleocharisspike-rusheslivestem causes gall of live stem

Author & YearTitleSource
Cox, M.L., 2007Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland336pp, Pisces Publications
Dennis, R.W.G., 1995Fungi of the South East England383pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2002British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungiAIDGAP Keys, 325pp, Field Studies Council

Eleocharis (spike-rushes) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Eleocharis mamillata
Northern Spike-rush
Species 1 subtaxa 1 references
Eleocharis multicaulis
Many-stalked Spike-rush
Species 1 trophisms
Eleocharis palustris
Common Spike-rush
Species 22 trophisms
Eleocharis parvula
Dwarf Spike-rush
Species 3 trophisms
Eleocharis quinqueflora
Few-flowered Spike-rush
Species 3 trophisms
Eleocharis uniglumis
Slender Spike-rush
Species 3 trophisms
Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusEleocharis (spike-rushes)
FamilyCYPERACEAE (cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges)
OrderPOALES (grasses, sedges & rushes)
ClassMAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
PhylumTRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
KingdomPLANTAE (plants)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Eleocharis (spike-rushes)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Roberts, F.J. et al Eleocharis Yeo, P.F. Acaena, taxa with spherical heads, Plant Crib 2012
() Roberts, J. JR’s Botanical Pages www.edencroft2.demon.co.uk

Eleocharis (spike-rushes) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource

Pathology

Bauer R., Lutz, M., Piatek, M., Vanky, K. & Oberwinkler, F. 2007 Flamingomyces and Parvulago, new genera of marine smut fungi (Ustilaginomycotina) Mycol. Res. Vol 111 (10): 1199-1206.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Eleocharis (spike-rushes):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 56 images of Eleocharis (spike-rushes)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioInfo website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

BioInfo - Wildlife Information (UK)