Phylum: Ascomycota Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales Family: Incertae sedis
Species: Rhopographus filicinus (Fr.) Nitschke ex Fuckel
Synonyms: Dothidea filicina
Dothidea pteridis
Rhopographus filicinus forma macrospora
Rhopographus pteridis
Sphaeria filicina
Sphaeria pteridis
Common Name: Bracken Map


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Rhopographus filicinusPhotographer: © David Mitchel
On Bracken
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Associated Species (where recorded) & number of records:
Pteridium aquilinum (9)
Habitat (where recorded) & number of records:
Woodland: broadleaved, semi-natural (3)
Bog: raised (1)
Built up area, domestic (1)
Calcareous grassland: unimproved (1)
Neutral grassland: semi-improved (1)
Parkland and scattered trees (1)
Scrub (1)
Woodland (1)
Woodland and scrub (1)
Woodland: mixed (1)
Substrate (where recorded) & number of records:
Stem (7)
Rhachis (1)
Months recorded in & number of records:
January (4)
March (1)
April (1)
June (1)
September (4)
October (4)
November (1)
December (1)