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Colchicum autumnale L. (Meadow Saffron)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Colchicum autumnale Non-flowering 13 April 2008 East Gloucestershire England 6
Colchicum autumnale In flower 19 September 2007 East Gloucestershire England 2
Colchicum autumnale Plant 8 April 2002 East Gloucestershire England 2
Colchicum autumnale In flower 5 September 1981 East Gloucestershire England 4

Suggested Literature

Colchicum autumnale 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 Colchicum autumnale:

leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous telium Uromyces colchici - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) UK/Ireland Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by linear sorus Urocystis colchici - Smutty Naked Ladies - Causative Organism (Urocystales: Urocystaceae) UK/Ireland Mordue, J.E.M. & Ainsworth G.C., 1984
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Colchicum autumnale may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
Colchicum
(colchicums)

References

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
Mordue, J.E.M. & Ainsworth G.C., 1984 Ustilaginales of the British Isles

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