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Iris foetidissima L. (Stinking Iris)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Iris foetidissima 9 June 2004 East Kent England 4
Iris foetidissima Plant 12 March 2000 South Devon England 4

Suggested Literature

Iris foetidissima may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Iris foetidissima:

(live) live is foodplant of larva Mononychus punctumalbum - Iris Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
flowering shoot (old, dead) old, dead flowering shoot is decayed by becoming erumpent conidioma of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph Phomopsis iridis - a coelomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by immersed pseudothecium Paraphaeosphaeria vectis - a fungus (Pleosporales: Montagnulaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is mined by communal larva Cerodontha iridis - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Major Robbins, R., 1990 [an upper sufrace, sometimes full depth, blotch, sometimes very large if several mine together. Pupariates internally.]
Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine inconspicuous, mottled, greenish]
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous uredium Puccinia iridis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Puccinia iridis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf leaf may house puparium Cerodontha iridis - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland Major Robbins, R., 1990 [an upper sufrace, sometimes full depth, blotch, sometimes very large if several mine together. Pupariates internally.]
Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine inconspicuous, mottled, greenish]

Iris foetidissima may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
Iris
(irises)

References

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Robbins, R., 1990 A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the midlands
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae

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