Ribes alpinum L.
(Mountain Currant)

Interactions where Ribes alpinum 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
		has sap sucked by adult			Elasmucha ferrugata	a shieldbug	Hemiptera: Acanthosomatidae	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles, Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Acanthosomatidae/Elasmucha ferrugata/	Elasmucha ferrugata	a shieldbug				adult	Foodplant / sap sucker		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Saxifragales/Grossulariaceae/Ribes alpinum/	Ribes alpinum	mountain currant					Minor	Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced		adult sucks sap of
		is parasitised by			Erysiphe grossulariae	a powdery mildew	Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe grossulariae/	Erysiphe grossulariae	a powdery mildew					Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Saxifragales/Grossulariaceae/Ribes alpinum/	Ribes alpinum	mountain currant								parasitises
		is parasitised by pycnium			Melampsora epitea	a rust fungus	Pucciniales: Melampsoraceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Melampsoraceae/Melampsora epitea/	Melampsora epitea	a rust fungus				pycnium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Saxifragales/Grossulariaceae/Ribes alpinum/	Ribes alpinum	mountain currant								pycnium parasitises
		is parasitised by caeomoid aecium			Melampsora epitea	a rust fungus	Pucciniales: Melampsoraceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Melampsoraceae/Melampsora epitea/	Melampsora epitea	a rust fungus		caeomoid		aecium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Saxifragales/Grossulariaceae/Ribes alpinum/	Ribes alpinum	mountain currant								caeomoid aecium parasitises
leaf		leaf is grazed by larva			Euura ribesii	Common Gooseberry Sawfly	Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae	Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (c), Benson, R.B., 1958	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Tenthredinidae/Euura ribesii/	Euura ribesii	common gooseberry sawfly				larva	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Saxifragales/Grossulariaceae/Ribes alpinum/	Ribes alpinum	mountain currant			leaf					larva grazes on leaf
leaf		leaf is galled by			Cryptomyzus korschelti	an aphid	Hemiptera: Aphididae	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Cryptomyzus (Cryptomyzus) korschelti/	Cryptomyzus (Cryptomyzus) korschelti	an aphid					Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Saxifragales/Grossulariaceae/Ribes alpinum/	Ribes alpinum	mountain currant			leaf					causes gall of leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by few, epiphyllous, scattered, immersed, black pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph			Septoria grossulariae	a leaf-spot fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Septoria grossulariae/	Septoria grossulariae	a leaf-spot fungus		few, epiphyllous, scattered, immersed, black	pycnidium	Septoria coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Saxifragales/Grossulariaceae/Ribes alpinum/	Ribes alpinum	mountain currant		live	leaf					few, epiphyllous, scattered, immersed, black pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf

Author & Year	Title	Source
Benson, R.B., 1958	Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (c)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol VI, Part 2(c), 252pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
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
Ing, B., 1990	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews	Mycologist Vol 4 (1) et seq.
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.
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls	95pp, British Plant Gall Society (BPGS)

Ribes alpinum (Mountain Currant) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Ribes
(currants and gooseberry)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Soft Fruit
(treees, bushes and plants that are grown for soft fruit)

Broadleaved shrubs
(broadleaved shrubs)

Broadleaved trees and shrubs
(broadleaved trees and shrubs)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

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

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Ribes alpinum (Mountain Currant)
Genus	Ribes (currants and gooseberry)
Family	GROSSULARIACEAE (currants and gooseberry)
Order	SAXIFRAGALES (saxifrages, stonecrops, peonies, currants and gooseberries)
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 Ribes alpinum (Mountain Currant)

Ribes alpinum (Mountain Currant) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Ribes
(currants and gooseberry)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

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

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Ribes alpinum (Mountain Currant):

Ribes
(currants and gooseberry)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Broadleaved trees and shrubs
(broadleaved trees and shrubs)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

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

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

BioImages

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