BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Rumex obtusifolius L. (Broad-leaved Dock)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Rumex obtusifolius Plant 3 August 1971 S. Devon England 1
Rumex obtusifolius Plant 17 July 1971 E. Sussex England 2

Suggested Literature

Rumex obtusifolius may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
POLYGONACEAE
(docks and knotgrasses)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Rumex obtusifolius:

(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia phragmitis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by telium Uromyces rumicis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (fading) fading leaf is spotted by immersed pseudothecium Venturia rumicis - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Venturiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes small dark, purplish-brown spots, sometimes with reddish-purple borders]
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by colony of Ramularia anamorph Ramularia rubella - an anamorphic fungus (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous uredium Uromyces rumicis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by immersed pseudothecium Venturia rumicis - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Venturiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes small dark, purplish-brown spots, sometimes with reddish-purple borders]
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by clustered aecium Puccinia phragmitis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes reddish-purple spots]
leaf (petiole base) leaf (petiole base) is foodplant of larva Apion frumentarium - a seed weevil (Coleoptera: Apionidae) Morris, M.G., 1990
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Hypera rumicis - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) UK/Ireland Morris, M.G., 2002
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Nematus crassus - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Benson, R.B., 1958
rootstock rootstock is foodplant of larva Apion frumentarium - a seed weevil (Coleoptera: Apionidae) Morris, M.G., 1990
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by immersed conidioma of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph Phomopsis durandiana - a coelomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by immersed perithecium Plagiostoma devexum - a pyrenomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem stem is foodplant of larva Apion frumentarium - a seed weevil (Coleoptera: Apionidae) Morris, M.G., 1990
stem stem may contain larva Apion hydrolapathi - a seed weevil (Coleoptera: Apionidae) Morris, M.G., 1990

Rumex obtusifolius may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
POLYGONACEAE
(docks and knotgrasses)
Rumex
(docks)

References

Benson, R.B., 1958 Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (c)
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Morris, M.G., 1990 Orthocerous Weevils
Morris, M.G., 2002 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae