Helleborus foetidus

 Vernacular names

English: Stinking Hellebore · Català: Marxívol · Deutsch: Stinkende Nieswurz · Español: Ballestera, Heléboro fétido · فارسی: کنگرگون · Français: Hellébore fétide · Italiano: Elleboro puzzolente · Nederlands: Stinkend nieskruid · Polski: Ciemiernik cuchnący ·

APG III Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: angiosperms • Cladus: eudicots • Ordo: Ranunculales • Familia: Ranunculaceae • Subfamilia: Ranunculoideae • Tribus: Helleboreae • Genus: Helleborus • Species: Helleborus foetidus L. (1753)

Species

Habitus - leaves

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  Plant with inflorescence and flower buds

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  Inflorescence with flower buds

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  Leaves

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Flora / Flowers

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  Some plants have flowers which are strongly margined with maroon-purple

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  Hellebore flowers normally have no true petals: the apparent petals are sepals or "tepals"

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  If the flower is opened, the tubular nectaries can be seen behind the pollen-bearing stamens

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  The horn-shaped nectaries are petals which have been transformed into tubes to hold nectar

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  Stamens and nectaries soon drop, allowing the carpels to swell with fertile seed

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Distribution

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  Helleborus foetidus
  Italy range map

Illustrations

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  Slika 18. Smrdljivi teloh. (Helléborus foetidus.), Naše škodljive rastline (1892)