Erica tetralix L.
(Cross-leaved Heath)

Interactions where Erica tetralix 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
		may have adult			Cryptocephalus biguttatus	a leaf beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus biguttatus/	Cryptocephalus biguttatus	a leaf beetle				adult	Plant / resting place / on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Erica tetralix/	Erica tetralix	cross-leaved heath							(6-7)	adult may be found on
flower		flower is foodplant of adult			Orthotylus ericetorum	a plantbug or grassbug	Hemiptera: Miridae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Miridae/Orthotylus (Litocoris) ericetorum/	Orthotylus (Litocoris) ericetorum	a plantbug or grassbug				adult	Foodplant / feeds on		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Erica tetralix/	Erica tetralix	cross-leaved heath			flower					adult feeds on flower
green parts		green parts is grazed by mobile cased larva			Cryptocephalus biguttatus	a leaf beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus biguttatus/	Cryptocephalus biguttatus	a leaf beetle				larva	Foodplant / mobile cased feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Erica tetralix/	Erica tetralix	cross-leaved heath			green parts		Sole			larva grazes in mobile case on green parts
leaf		leaf is grazed by larva			Altica longicollis	a flea beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Altica longicollis/	Altica longicollis	a flea beetle				larva	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Erica tetralix/	Erica tetralix	cross-leaved heath			leaf					larva grazes on leaf
leaf		leaf is foodplant of adult			Orthotylus ericetorum	a plantbug or grassbug	Hemiptera: Miridae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Miridae/Orthotylus (Litocoris) ericetorum/	Orthotylus (Litocoris) ericetorum	a plantbug or grassbug				adult	Foodplant / feeds on		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Erica tetralix/	Erica tetralix	cross-leaved heath			leaf					adult feeds on leaf
leaf (dead)		dead leaf is decayed by scattered pycnidium of Phyllosticta coelomycetous anamorph			Phyllosticta ericae	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 ericae/	Phyllosticta ericae	a coelomycete		scattered	pycnidium	Phyllosticta coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Erica tetralix/	Erica tetralix	cross-leaved heath		dead	leaf				(1)	scattered pycnidium of Phyllosticta coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on dead leaf
leaf (fading)		fading leaf is foodplant of superficial pseudothecium			Gibbera salisburgensis	an ascomycete	Venturiales: Venturiaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Gibbera salisburgensis/	Gibbera salisburgensis	an ascomycete		superficial		pseudothecium	Foodplant / feeds on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Erica tetralix/	Erica tetralix	cross-leaved heath		fading	leaf				(8)	superficial pseudothecium feeds on fading leaf
petal (young)		petal (young) is foodplant of nymph			Orthotylus ericetorum	a plantbug or grassbug	Hemiptera: Miridae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Miridae/Orthotylus (Litocoris) ericetorum/	Orthotylus (Litocoris) ericetorum	a plantbug or grassbug				nymph	Foodplant / feeds on		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Erica tetralix/	Erica tetralix	cross-leaved heath			petal (young)					nymph feeds on petal (young)
twig		twig is foodplant of superficial pseudothecium			Gibbera salisburgensis	an ascomycete	Venturiales: Venturiaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Gibbera salisburgensis/	Gibbera salisburgensis	an ascomycete		superficial		pseudothecium	Foodplant / feeds on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ericales/Ericaceae/Erica tetralix/	Erica tetralix	cross-leaved heath			twig				(8)	superficial pseudothecium feeds on twig

Author & Year	Title	Source
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Cox, M.L., 2007	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland	336pp, Pisces Publications
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
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.

Erica tetralix (Cross-leaved Heath) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Erica
(bell heathers)

ERICACEAE
(heaths, heathers, rhododendrons, azaleas & wintergeeens)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Woody plants
(subshrubs)

Broadleaved shrubs
(broadleaved shrubs)

Broadleaved trees and shrubs
(broadleaved trees and shrubs)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants
(trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Erica tetralix (Cross-leaved Heath)
Genus	Erica (bell heathers)
Family	ERICACEAE (heaths, heathers, rhododendrons, azaleas & wintergeeens)
Order	ERICALES (heaths, heathers, azaleas, primroses, loosestrifes and balsams)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Erica tetralix (Cross-leaved Heath)

Erica tetralix (Cross-leaved Heath) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Erica
(bell heathers)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants
(trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Erica tetralix (Cross-leaved Heath):

Erica
(bell heathers)

ERICACEAE
(heaths, heathers, rhododendrons, azaleas & wintergeeens)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Endomycorrhizal trees and shrubs
(endomycorrhizal or endotrophic mycorrhizal trees and shrubs)

Broadleaved trees and shrubs
(broadleaved trees and shrubs)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Endomycorrhizal plants
(plants that form endomycorrhiza)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants
(trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers)

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