Amethyst squill

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Amethyst squill
Amethyst squill (Chouardia litardierei)

Amethyst squill ( Chouardia litardierei )

Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Scilloideae
Genre : Chouardia
Type : Amethyst squill
Scientific name
Chouardia litardierei
( Breistr. ) Speta

The amethyst squill or meadow squill ( Chouardia litardierei (Breistr.) Speta , syn .: Scilla litardierei (Breistr.) Speta , Scilla pratensis Waldst. Et Kit. Non Bergeret , Scilla amethystina Vis. , Scilla italica Host , Scilla nutans Alsch ) Speta ) is a species of the Chouardia genus that is closely related to the squill ( Scilla ). The genus Chouardia consists of only two species, Chouardia litardierei and Chouardia lakusicii . Chouardia lakusicsii is common in Dalmatia and the Dinaric Alps .

features

Chouardia lakusicii from the Orjen

The amethyst squill is a perennial, herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 10 to 45 centimeters. This geophyte forms onions as persistent organs. Foliage leaves are usually present from March to May, sometimes from February or September. The leaves are 15 to 40 centimeters long and 0.3 to 1.5 centimeters wide, runny, bare and have a hood tip. 15 to 70 flowers together form a dense, spherical, racemose inflorescence . The flower stalks and the inflorescence axis are blue-violet. The lower bracts are less than a millimeter long. The hermaphrodite flowers are threefold. The bracts are 4 to 5 millimeters long and 1.3 to 1.8 millimeters wide, blue-violet in color and spread out in a star shape. The anthers are black-violet.

The flowering time is usually in May, sometimes it begins in April or lasts until June.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 26.

Occurrence

The distribution area of ​​the amethyst squill extends from Slovenia and Croatia to western Serbia, Montenegro and northern Albania. Here the species can be found in moist pipe grass meadows and rocky mountain pastures up to altitudes of 2000 meters.

The locus classicus is the Lika near Korenica in Croatia.

use

This species is rarely used as an ornamental plant for sunny borders with small shrubs and for light wooded edges.

etymology

The scientific species name ("epithet") litardierii is dedicated to the French botanist and researcher of the Corsican flora René Verriet de Litardière (1888–1957).

swell

  • Eckehart J. Jäger, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd K. Müller (eds.): Rothmaler Exkursionsflora von Deutschland Volume 5 Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Berlin Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8 .
  • Šilić, C .: Scilla lakusicii sp. nov. - nova vrsta genusa Scilla L. i njeni srodnički odnosi sa vrstom S. litardieri Breistr. - Glasn. Zem. Muz. Bosne Herc. (Sarajevo) 30: 29-41, 1991.
  • Šilić, C., Colic, ME (2002): Chouardia lakusicii Speta - nova vrsta u flori Hrvatske. Hladnikia 14, 41-44.
  • F. Speta: Systematic analysis of the genus Scilla L. (Hyacinthaceae). Phyton (Horn), Vol. 38, pp. 1-141.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Speta, F. (1998): Systematic analysis of the genus Scilla L. sl (Hyacinthaceae). Phyton (Horn Austria) 38 (1), 97-99.
  2. ↑ http://www.gbif.net/species/15514130/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Chouardia litardierei on GBIF@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gbif.net  
  3. ^ A b c d Eckehart J. Jäger, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd K. Müller (eds.): Rothmaler Exkursionsflora von Deutschland Volume 5 Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Berlin Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8 .
  4. ↑ Plitvice Lakes National Park ( Memento from June 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Endemic species (Prof. Dr. sc. Nedeljka Šegulja)

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