Alpine honeysuckle

Alpine honeysuckle
	Alpine honeysuckle ( Lonicera alpigena )
Systematics
	Asterids
	Euasterids II
Order :	Cardigans (Dipsacales)
Family :	Honeysuckle Family (Caprifoliaceae)
Genre :	Honeysuckle ( Lonicera )
Type :	Alpine honeysuckle
Scientific name
	Lonicera alpigena
	L.

The Alpine Honeysuckle ( Lonicera alpigena ) is a plant type from the family Caprifoliaceae (Caprifoliaceae). Other names are alpine double berries or red double berries .

features

The deciduous, only slightly branched shrub reaches a height of between one and three meters. The two-edged shoots are not hairy, the angular branches are hollow.

The opposite leaves are stalked about an inch long and six to eight inches long and three to five inches wide. The elliptical, pointed and smooth-edged leaf blades have a fresh green color and are very shiny underneath.

The flowers sit in pairs on a two to five centimeter long stalk in the leaf axils. The reddish, funnel-shaped crown is clearly two-lipped. Flowering time is from May to July. The red, shiny fruits (double berries) ripen from August and are poisonous. The long-stalked, red double berry has grown into a spherical structure that looks like a single fruit.

The species chromosome number is 2n = 18 or 36.

Fruits (double berries) of the Alpine honeysuckle

Occurrence

The Alpine Honeysuckle settled Hochstauden- and blow corridors , herb-rich Bergmisch- and ravine forests, hems and paths, mostly on calcareous. It is one of the Lonicero Fagenion societies. In the Alps , the plant rises to an altitude of 2300 m above sea level . In the Allgäu Alps, it rises up to 1950 m above sea level on the Gängele near the Deinenkopf in Bavaria.

The distribution area extends from the mountains of Central and Southern Europe, from the Pyrenees to the Balkans . One of the subspecies is also found in East Asia. In Germany , the Alpine honeysuckle occurs northwards only to the Danube . In Austria it is common, but is missing in Vienna and Burgenland.

Systematics

One can differentiate between the following subspecies, which some authors also recognize as independent species:

Lonicera alpigena L. subsp. alpigena : It occurs in Spain, Andorra, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Serbia, on the Balkan Peninsula, in Romania and in Slovakia. In Norway she is a neophyte .
Lonicera alpigena subsp. glehnii (F. Schmidt) H. Hara (Syn .: Lonicera glehnii F. Schmidt ): It occurs on Sakhalin, on the Kuriles and on the Japanese islands of Hokkaido and Honshu.
Lonicera alpigena subsp. Hellenica (Boiss.) Kit Tan & Aim. (Syn .: Lonicera hellenica Boiss. ): It occurs in Greece and in European Turkey.
Lonicera alpigena subsp. glutinosa (Vis.) Kit Tan & Aim. (Syn .: Lonicera glutinosa Vis. ): It occurs in Croatia and Montenegro.

ecology

The Alpine honeysuckle is a shade plant . Their flowers are pollinated by bumblebees or wasps.

literature

Manfred A. Fischer , Karl Oswald, Wolfgang Adler: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol. 3rd, improved edition. State of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2008, ISBN 978-3-85474-187-9 .
Kremer: shrub trees . Niedernhausen, 2002. ISBN 3-576-11478-5

Individual evidence

↑ Ruprecht Düll , Herfried Kutzelnigg : Pocket dictionary of the plants of Germany and neighboring countries. The most common Central European species in portrait. 7th, corrected and enlarged edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-494-01424-1
↑ ^a ^b ^c Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . 8th edition. Stuttgart, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 2001. Page 878. ISBN 3-8001-3131-5
↑ Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 2, IHW, Eching 2004, ISBN 3-930167-61-1 , p. 526.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e E. von Raab-Straube (2017+): Caprifoliaceae. - In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Datasheet Caprifoliaceae
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Lonicera alpigena in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.

Web links

Commons : Alpine honeysuckle ( Lonicera alpigena ) - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Alpine honeysuckle. In: FloraWeb.de.
Alpine honeysuckle . In: BiolFlor, the database of biological-ecological characteristics of the flora of Germany.
Profile and distribution map for Bavaria . In: Botanical Information Hub of Bavaria .
Lonicera alpigena L. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved March 30, 2016.
Thomas Meyer: Honeysuckle data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia )
The Alpine hedge cherry ( Lonicera alpigena ) at giftpflanze.com

[1] Ruprecht Düll , Herfried Kutzelnigg : Pocket dictionary of the plants of Germany and neighboring countries. The most common Central European species in portrait. 7th, corrected and enlarged edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-494-01424-1

[Oberdorfer-2] Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . 8th edition. Stuttgart, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 2001. Page 878. ISBN 3-8001-3131-5

[Dörr_und_Lippert-3] Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 2, IHW, Eching 2004, ISBN 3-930167-61-1 , p. 526.

[Euro+Med-4] E. von Raab-Straube (2017+): Caprifoliaceae. - In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Datasheet Caprifoliaceae

[GRIN-5] Lonicera alpigena in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.