Thalictrum L.
(meadow-rues)

Interactions where Thalictrum 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
(live)		live is parasitised by aecium			Puccinia recondita	Brown Rust, Brown Rust Of Wheat	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	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 recondita/	Puccinia recondita	brown rust, brown rust of wheat				aecium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ranunculales/Ranunculaceae/Thalictrum/	Thalictrum	meadow-rues		live						aecium parasitises live
(live)		live is parasitised by pycnium			Puccinia recondita	Brown Rust, Brown Rust Of Wheat	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	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 recondita/	Puccinia recondita	brown rust, brown rust of wheat				pycnium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ranunculales/Ranunculaceae/Thalictrum/	Thalictrum	meadow-rues		live						pycnium parasitises live
fruit		fruit is galled by larva			Ametrodiplosis thalictricola	a gall midge	Diptera: Cecidomyiidae	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Cecidomyiidae/Ametrodiplosis thalictricola/	Ametrodiplosis thalictricola	a gall midge				larva	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ranunculales/Ranunculaceae/Thalictrum/	Thalictrum	meadow-rues			fruit					larva causes gall of fruit
leaf		leaf is grazed by larva			Longitarsus brunneus	a flea beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae), Kevan D.K., 1967	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Longitarsus brunneus/	Longitarsus brunneus	a flea beetle				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ranunculales/Ranunculaceae/Thalictrum/	Thalictrum	meadow-rues			leaf					larva grazes on leaf
leaf		leaf is grazed by adult			Longitarsus brunneus	a flea beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae), Kevan D.K., 1967	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Longitarsus brunneus/	Longitarsus brunneus	a flea beetle				adult	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ranunculales/Ranunculaceae/Thalictrum/	Thalictrum	meadow-rues			leaf					adult grazes on leaf
leaf		leaf is mined by larva			Phytomyza minuscula	a leaf-mining fly	Diptera: Agromyzidae	Diptera: Agromyzidae, Spencer, K.A., 1972	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Agromyzidae/Phytomyza minuscula/	Phytomyza minuscula	a leaf-mining fly				larva	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ranunculales/Ranunculaceae/Thalictrum/	Thalictrum	meadow-rues			leaf					larva mines leaf
leaf		leaf is galled by			Urocystis sorosporioides	a smut fungus	Urocystidales: Urocystidaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Ustilaginomycetes/Urocystidales/Urocystidaceae/Urocystis sorosporioides/	Urocystis sorosporioides	a smut fungus					Foodplant / gall		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ranunculales/Ranunculaceae/Thalictrum/	Thalictrum	meadow-rues			leaf					causes gall of leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by amphigenous colony of Haplobasidion dematiaceous anamorph			Haplobasidion thalictri	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Haplobasidion thalictri/	Haplobasidion thalictri	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		amphigenous	colony	Haplobasidion dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ranunculales/Ranunculaceae/Thalictrum/	Thalictrum	meadow-rues		live	leaf					amphigenous colony of Haplobasidion dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf
root		root may be infected and damaged by			Pratylenchus	root-lesion eelworms	Tylenchida: Pratylenchidae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Animalia/Nematoda/Secernentea/Tylenchida/Pratylenchidae/Pratylenchus/	Pratylenchus	root-lesion eelworms					Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ranunculales/Ranunculaceae/Thalictrum/	Thalictrum	meadow-rues			root		Major			infects and damages root
stem		stem is galled by			Urocystis sorosporioides	a smut fungus	Urocystidales: Urocystidaceae	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Ustilaginomycetes/Urocystidales/Urocystidaceae/Urocystis sorosporioides/	Urocystis sorosporioides	a smut fungus					Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ranunculales/Ranunculaceae/Thalictrum/	Thalictrum	meadow-rues			stem					causes gall of stem

Author & Year	Title	Source
Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants	Collins Photoguide, 2nd edition edition, Collins
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Dennis, R.W.G., 1995	Fungi of the South East England	383pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Kevan D.K., 1967	The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae)	Ent. Mon. Mag. Vol 103: 83-110.
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
Spencer, K.A., 1972	Diptera: Agromyzidae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol X. Part 5(g), 136pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls	95pp, British Plant Gall Society (BPGS)

Thalictrum (meadow-rues) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

RANUNCULACEAE
(buttercups, crowfoots)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Subtaxon				Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Thalictrum alpinum Alpine Meadow-rue				Species		7 trophisms
Thalictrum aquilegiifolium French Meadow-rue				Species		1 trophisms
Thalictrum flavum Common Meadow-rue				Species		13 trophisms
Thalictrum minus Lesser Meadow-rue				Species		11 trophisms
Thalictrum specisissimus a cultivated meadow-rue				Species		1 trophisms

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Thalictrum (meadow-rues)
Family	RANUNCULACEAE (buttercups, crowfoots)
Order	RANUNCULALES (buttercups, poppies and barberries)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Thalictrum is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Ranunculaceae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Thalictrum (meadow-rues)

Thalictrum (meadow-rues) 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 Thalictrum (meadow-rues):

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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