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Lactuca virosa L. (Greater Lettuce)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Lactuca virosa Plant 1 April 2000 Berks England 3
Lactuca virosa Plant 4 July 1998 Berks England 7
Lactuca virosa Plant 10 May 1998 Berks England 3

Suggested Literature

Lactuca virosa may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)
Lactuceae
(“dandelions”)
Lactuca
(lettuces)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Lactuca virosa:

Photos (live) live is parasitised by Golovinomyces cichoracearum - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Trupanea amoena - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign Questionable White, I.M., 1988
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia opizii - Lettuce Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Rare Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by aecium Puccinia opizii - Lettuce Rust (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Rare Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Lactuca virosa may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)
Lactuceae
(“dandelions”)
Lactuca
(lettuces)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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