Alpine gentian
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The alpine gentian ( Gentiana alpina ) is a plant from the genus of gentians ( Gentiana ) in the family of Gentianaceae (Gentianaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
The Alpine gentian is a perennial herbaceous plant that only reaches up to 8 centimeters. The opposite leaves are crowded at the base of the stem . The simple leaf blade is about 1 inch long and almost circular. The leaf margins are cartilaginous.
Generative characteristics
The flowers are individually terminal on the stems. The hermaphrodite flowers are radially symmetrical with a double flower envelope . The five green sepals are fused up to about half their length to form a calyx tube that ends in five egg-shaped calyx teeth narrowed towards the base. The dark blue crown is 40 to 70 millimeters in length and is inverted-conical. There are green dots in the crown throat, the crown lobes are blunt and mostly rounded.
ecology
In Gentiana alpina is a hemicryptophytes .
Occurrence
Gentiana alpina is found in the southwest and west of the Middle Alps , the Middle Pyrenees and the Sierra Nevada in southern Spain . It avoids lime and grows at altitudes of 2000 to 2600 meters. In the Alps it finds its optimum in the societies of the Caricion curvulae association.
Taxonomy
It was first published in 1779 under the name Gentiana alpina by Dominique Villars in Prospectus de l'Histoire des Plantes de Dauphiné , page 22. Synonyms for Gentiana alpina Vill. are Ciminalis alpina (Vill.) Holub , Gentiana acaulis subsp. alpina (Vill.) O.Bolòs & Vigo .
Media reception
Adolf von Kleebsattel, a collective pseudonym for Wolfgang Neukirchner and Erich Becht , created the song " Blau blooms der Enzian ", which became a million seller thanks to Heino , and which provided the title of a feature film of the same name .
literature
- Thomas Gaskell Tutin : Gentiana. 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. 62 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Aeschimann, Konrad Lauber, Daniel Martin Moser, Jean-Paul Theurillat: Flora alpina . Volume 2, page 18. Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna Haupt-Verlag, 2004. ISBN 3-258-06600-0
- ^ Gentiana alpina at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed August 16, 2017.
- ↑ Karol Marhold, 2011: Gentianaceae. : Gentiana alpina at Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity . Last accessed on August 16, 2017.
Web links
- Gentiana alpina In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved August 16, 2017.