Lotus pedunculatus Cav.
(Large Bird’s-foot-trefoil, Greater Bird’s-foot-trefoil)

Interactions where Lotus pedunculatus 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').

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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 foodplant of larva			Coelositona cambricus	a weevil	Coleoptera: Curculionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 Broad-Nosed Weevils (Entiminae), Morris, M.G., 1997	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Coelositona cambricus/	Coelositona cambricus	a weevil				larva	Foodplant / feeds on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Lotus pedunculatus/	Lotus pedunculatus	large bird’s-foot-trefoil, greater bird's-foot-trefoil								larva feeds on
(live)		live may be infected and damaged by sporangium			Peronospora lotorum	a downy mildew	Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae	Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland, Cooper, J. & Kirk, P.M.	/Chromista/Oomycota/Peronosporea/Peronosporales/Peronosporaceae/Peronospora lotorum/	Peronospora lotorum	a downy mildew				sporangium	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Lotus pedunculatus/	Lotus pedunculatus	large bird’s-foot-trefoil, greater bird's-foot-trefoil		live			Minor			sporangium infects and damages live
(live)		live is parasitised by sporangium			Peronospora trifoliorum s. lat.	a downy mildew	Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Chromista/Oomycota/Peronosporea/Peronosporales/Peronosporaceae/Peronospora trifoliorum s. lat./	Peronospora trifoliorum s. lat.	a downy mildew				sporangium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Lotus pedunculatus/	Lotus pedunculatus	large bird’s-foot-trefoil, greater bird's-foot-trefoil		live						sporangium parasitises live
(live)		live is parasitised by sporangium			Peronospora trifoliorum s. lat.	a downy mildew	Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae	Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 A Checklist of the Downy Mildews (Peronosporaceae) of the British Isles, Preece, T.F., 2002	/Chromista/Oomycota/Peronosporea/Peronosporales/Peronosporaceae/Peronospora trifoliorum s. lat./	Peronospora trifoliorum s. lat.	a downy mildew				sporangium	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Lotus pedunculatus/	Lotus pedunculatus	large bird’s-foot-trefoil, greater bird's-foot-trefoil		live			Minor			sporangium parasitises live
(live)		live is parasitised by cleistothecium			Erysiphe trifoliorum	a powdery mildew	Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe trifoliorum/	Erysiphe trifoliorum	a powdery mildew				cleistothecium	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Lotus pedunculatus/	Lotus pedunculatus	large bird’s-foot-trefoil, greater bird's-foot-trefoil		live						cleistothecium parasitises live
(live)		live is parasitised by conidial anamorph			Erysiphe trifoliorum	a powdery mildew	Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe trifoliorum/	Erysiphe trifoliorum	a powdery mildew				conidial anamorph	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Lotus pedunculatus/	Lotus pedunculatus	large bird’s-foot-trefoil, greater bird's-foot-trefoil		live						conidial anamorph parasitises live
leaf (fading)		fading leaf is spotted by mostly hypophyllous colony of Ramularia anamorph			Ramularia sphaeroidea	an anamorphic fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998 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/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Ramularia sphaeroidea/	Ramularia sphaeroidea	an anamorphic fungus		mostly hypophyllous	colony	Ramularia anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Lotus pedunculatus/	Lotus pedunculatus	large bird’s-foot-trefoil, greater bird's-foot-trefoil		fading	leaf		Major			mostly hypophyllous colony of Ramularia anamorph causes spots on fading leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by amphigenous, punctiform to subeffuse, greyish white caespituli of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph			Ramularia schulzeri	an anamorphic fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Ramularia schulzeri/	Ramularia schulzeri	an anamorphic fungus		amphigenous, punctiform to subeffuse, greyish white	caespituli	Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Lotus pedunculatus/	Lotus pedunculatus	large bird’s-foot-trefoil, greater bird's-foot-trefoil		live	leaf					amphigenous, punctiform to subeffuse, greyish white caespituli of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by mostly hypophyllous colony of Ramularia anamorph			Ramularia sphaeroidea	an anamorphic fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998 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/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Ramularia sphaeroidea/	Ramularia sphaeroidea	an anamorphic fungus		mostly hypophyllous	colony	Ramularia anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Lotus pedunculatus/	Lotus pedunculatus	large bird’s-foot-trefoil, greater bird's-foot-trefoil		live	leaf		Major			mostly hypophyllous colony of Ramularia anamorph causes spots on live leaf
pod		pod may contain larva			Ischnopterapion modestum	a seed weevil	Coleoptera: Apionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 Orthocerous Weevils, Morris, M.G., 1990	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Apionidae/Ischnopterapion modestum/	Ischnopterapion modestum	a seed weevil				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Lotus pedunculatus/	Lotus pedunculatus	large bird’s-foot-trefoil, greater bird's-foot-trefoil			pod		Sole			larva feeds within pod
stem		stem may contain larva			Synapion ebeninum	a seed weevil	Coleoptera: Apionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 Orthocerous Weevils, Morris, M.G., 1990	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Apionidae/Synapion ebeninum/	Synapion ebeninum	a seed weevil				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Lotus pedunculatus/	Lotus pedunculatus	large bird’s-foot-trefoil, greater bird's-foot-trefoil			stem		Major			larva feeds within stem
stem (dead, decayed)		dead, decayed stem is decayed by basidiome			Calyptella campanula	Bell Hoodie	Agaricales: Marasmiaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Marasmiaceae/Calyptella campanula/	Calyptella campanula	bell hoodie				basidiome	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Lotus pedunculatus/	Lotus pedunculatus	large bird’s-foot-trefoil, greater bird's-foot-trefoil		dead, decayed	stem					basidiome is saprobic on dead, decayed stem

Author & Year	Title	Source
Cooper, J. & Kirk, P.M.	Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland	www.fieldmycology.net/GBCHKLST/gbchklst.asp
Braun, U., 1998	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II	Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes, 2, 493pp, IHW-Verlag
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
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
Morris, M.G., 1990	Orthocerous Weevils	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5 Part 16, 108pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Morris, M.G., 1997	Broad-Nosed Weevils (Entiminae)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, Part 17a, 106pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Preece, T.F., 2002	A Checklist of the Downy Mildews (Peronosporaceae) of the British Isles	33pp, British Mycological Society

Lotus pedunculatus (Large Bird’s-foot-trefoil, Greater Bird’s-foot-trefoil) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Lotus
(bird’s-foot-trefoils)

FABOIDEAE
(vetches, peas and beans)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Lotus pedunculatus (Large Bird’s-foot-trefoil, Greater Bird’s-foot-trefoil)
Genus	Lotus (bird’s-foot-trefoils)
Subfamily	FABOIDEAE (vetches, peas and beans)
Family	FABACEAE (vetches, peas, beans, accacias, wattles and sennas)
Order	FABALES (vetches, peas, beans and milkworts)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Lotus pedunculatus is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Faboideae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Lotus pedunculatus (Large Bird’s-foot-trefoil, Greater Bird’s-foot-trefoil)

Lotus pedunculatus (Large Bird’s-foot-trefoil, Greater Bird’s-foot-trefoil) 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 Lotus pedunculatus (Large Bird’s-foot-trefoil, Greater Bird’s-foot-trefoil):

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

BioImages

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