The lamb disease alveld: Search for fungi and bacteria on Narthecium ossifragum foliage and roots

•The causality of the serious hepatogen sheep (Ovis aries) photosensitization disease alveld is not explained.•Three species of bacteria and 16 species/genera of microfungi, several of which were new to this plant, were identified.•The ecology of some of the identified species of microfungi and bacteria and their possible relevance to the alveld pathosystem is discussed.