BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Echium (viper's buglosses)
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Echium pininana Webb & Bernh. (Giant Viper's-bugloss) | 5 | |
| Species | Echium plantagineum L. (Purple Viper's-bugloss) | 2 | |
| Species | Echium vulgare L. (Viper’s-bugloss) | 14 | 14 |
Suggested Literature
Echium may be covered by literature listed under:
|
BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
PLANTAE (plants) |
SPERMATOPHYTA (vascular plants) |
MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants) |
MAGNOLIIDAE (dicotyledonous flowering plants) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Associated with Echium:
 |
(live) | live is parasitised by pycnium | Puccinia recondita - Brown Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) | Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | |
|
(live) | live is parasitised by aecium | Puccinia recondita - Brown Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) | Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | |
| leaf | leaf is mined by communal larva | Agromyza abiens - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) | Spencer, K.A., 1972 [large blotch which can fill entire leaf] |
Echium may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
|
MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants) |
MAGNOLIIDAE (dicotyledonous flowering plants) |
BORAGINACEAE (comfreys and forget-me-nots) |
References
| Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota |
| Spencer, K.A., 1972 | Diptera: Agromyzidae |
