Ajuga orientalis
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Ajuga orientalis , also called Oriental Günsel , is a species of Günsel ( Ajuga ) within the mint family (Lamiaceae).
description
Ajuga orientalis grows as a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 10 to 60 centimeters. It forms short rhizomes as persistence organs. The aboveground parts of the plant are hairy more or less densely woolly and shaggy. The lower leaves are 3 to 9 (to 12) centimeters long and 1.5 to 4 (to 5) centimeters wide, ovate to oblong and crenate or crenate-serrated or sometimes slightly lobed.
The bracts are egg-shaped, mostly shallowly lobed and tinged with blue, the upper ones are shorter than the flowers. The pseudo whorls of the inflorescence are distant from each other; they are four- to six-flowered (rarely up to twelve-flowered). The hermaphrodite flowers are zygomorphic and five-fold with a double flower envelope . The sepals , 5 to 8 millimeters long, are fused tubular over about half of their length. The blue-violet corolla is 10 to 13 (to 18) millimeters long. The corolla tube towers above the chalice, it has no hair ring inside. The upper lip of the crown is clearly bilobed. A special feature is the twisted crown tube; the blue-violet, three-lobed lower lip with an extensive whitish mark is directed upwards, the two-lobed upper lip downwards. The stamens are enclosed in the corolla tube.
Phenology
The flowering period extends from March to July.
Chromosome number
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 32, or 64.
Occurrence
The distribution area of Ajuga orientalis includes Sardinia , Sicily and Calabria , Albania , all regions of Greece , Bessarabia and the Crimea as well as the entire Caucasus region , all of Turkey with the exception of Mesopotamia and the southeast, northwestern Iran , the Troodos Mountains in Cyprus , the western one Syria and Lebanon , northern Israel and the West Bank, and northwestern Jordan .
Ajuga orientalis thrives in maquis , on gravel fields and in shady ruderal areas . In Turkey it inhabits altitudes between sea level and 3100 m.
Taxonomy
The first publication of Ajuga orientalis was in 1753 by Carl von Linné . Synonyms of Ajuga orientalis L. are: Bugula orientalis (L.) Mill. , Bulga orientalis (L.) Kuntze , Bugula obliqua Moench , Ajuga orientalis var. Condensata Boiss.
One can distinguish between two subspecies:
- Ajuga orientalis subsp. orientalis
- Ajuga orientalis subsp. aenesia (Heldr.) Phitos & Damboldt (Syn .: Ajuga orientalis var. aenesia Heldr. ): It differs from the nominate form in the striking purple-purple colored bracts with few deep teeth and the more compact inflorescence; it is endemic to the Greek island of Kefalonia . However, it is not accepted in the World Checklist of Lamiaceae .
literature
- Peter William Ball: Ajuga L. In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-08489-X , pp. 128 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
- Peter Schönfelder, Ingrid Schönfelder: The new cosmos of Mediterranean flora. Over 1600 species and 1600 photos (= KosmosNaturführer ). Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-440-10742-3 , pp. 248 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Peter Schönfelder, Ingrid Schönfelder: The new cosmos of the Mediterranean flora. Over 1600 species and 1600 photos (= KosmosNaturführer ). Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-440-10742-3 , pp. 248 .
- ^ A b Robert Desmond Meikle : Flora of Cyprus. Volume Two (Valerianaceae to Polypodiaceae) . Bentham-Moxon Trust & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London 1985, ISBN 0-9504876-4-3 , pp. 1343-1344 .
- ^ Ajuga orientalis at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Antonio Scrugli, Luigi Mossa, Maria Pia Grasso: Ajuga orientalis L. (Labiatae) per la nuova flora di Sardegna. Considerazioni fitogeografiche. In: Candollea. Volume 38, No. 1, 1983, ISSN 0373-2967 , pp. 125-129.
- ↑ Werner Greuter, Hervé-Maurice Burdet, Guy Long (eds.): Med-Checklist. A critical inventory of vascular plants of the circum-Mediterranean countries . Vol. 3: Dicotyledones (Convolvulaceae - Labiatae) . Conservatoire et Jardin Botanique, Genève 1986, ISBN 2-8277-0153-7 , p. 278 ( online ).
- ↑ Fabio Conti, Giovanna Abbate, Alessandro Alessandrini, Carlo Blasi (Eds.): An annotated checklist of the Italian vascular flora. Palombi, Roma 2005, ISBN 88-7621-458-5 , p. 48 (PDF file; 9 MB) .
- ↑ a b Panayiotis Dimopoulos, Thomas Raus, Erwin Bergmeier, Theophanis Constantinidis, Gregoris Iatrou, Stella Kokkini, Arne Strid, Dimitrios Tzanoudakis: Vascular Plants of Greece: An Annotated Checklist. (= Englera. 31). Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem / Hellenic Botanical Society, Berlin / Athens 2013, ISBN 978-3-921800-88-1 , p. 106.
- ↑ BK Shishkin, SV Yuzepchuk (ed.): Flora of the USSR. Founded by Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov. Volume XX: Labiatae (Ajuga - Neustruevia), Keter / Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation, Jerusalem / Washington, DC 1976, ISBN 0-7065-1573-0 , pp. 26-27 (English, translated by N. Landau ; Russian original: Botanicheskii institut, Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow / Leningrad 1954, pp. 38–39), digitized .
- ^ A b Peter H. Davis: Ajuga. In: Peter Hadland Davis (Ed.): Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Vol. 7 (Orobanchaceae to Rubiaceae) . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1982, ISBN 0-85224-396-0 , pp. 43-44 .
- ^ Karl Heinz Rechinger: Ajuga. In: Karl Heinz Rechinger (Ed.): Flora Iranica. Flora of the Iranian highlands and the surrounding mountains. Volume 150, Labiatae. Akademische Drucks- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1982, ISBN 3-201-00728-5 , pp. 20-21.
- ^ Paul Mouterde: Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie. Texts. Edited posthumously by André Charpin, Werner Greuter. Volume 3, No. 1-4 (Ericaceae - Compositae), Dar el-Machreq, Beirut 1978-1983, ISBN 2-7214-5807-8 , p. 97.
- ↑ Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan (Ed.): Flora Palaestina. Part 3. Ericaceae to Compositae. Text and Plates. Academy of Sciences and Letters, Jerusalem 1978, ISBN 965-208-003-9 , pp. 99-100 .
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Species Plantarum. Volume 1, Lars Salvius, Stockholm 1753, p. 561, digitized
- ↑ Dimitrios Phitos, Jürgen Damboldt: The flora of the island of Kefallinia (Greece). In: Botanika Chronika (Patras). Volume 5, No. 1-2, 1985, ISSN 0253-6064 , p. 111 (in Greek with German introduction).
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Ajuga orientalis. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved July 2, 2014.
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