BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Helleborus foetidus L. (Stinking Hellebore)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos #microphotos
Helleborus foetidus Plant 9 March 2002 North Wiltshire England 6
Helleborus foetidus Plant 13 February 2000 Berks England 7
Helleborus foetidus Plant 8 April 1999 Berks England 6 7

Suggested Literature

General Works

Stubbs, A.E., 2000 The hellebore leaf-miner Phytomyza hellebori Kaltenbach (Diptera, Agromyzidae) new to Britain

Helleborus foetidus may also 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 Helleborus foetidus:

(live) live is parasitised by Peronospora pulveracea - a downy mildew (Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos leaf (dark green over-wintering) dark green over-wintering leaf is mined by larva Phytomyza hellebori - Hellebore Leaf-miner (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Restricted Stubbs, A.E., 2000
Photos leaf (fading) fading leaf is spotted by epiphyllous pycnidium of Coniothyrium coelomycetous anamorph Coniothyrium hellebori - a coelomycete (Pleosporales: Leptosphaeriaceae) Bioimages - the Virtual Field Guide: http://www.bioimages.org.uk
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by colony of Ramularia anamorph Ramularia hellebori - an anamorphic fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes pale spots with dark margins]

Helleborus foetidus may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
RANUNCULACEAE
(buttercups, crowfoots)
Helleborus
(hellebores)

References

Bioimages - the Virtual Field Guide: http://www.bioimages.org.uk Bioimages - the Virtual Field Guide
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Stubbs, A.E., 2000 The hellebore leaf-miner Phytomyza hellebori Kaltenbach (Diptera, Agromyzidae) new to Britain

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