Diss (plant)

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Diss
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Diss ( Ampelodesmos mauritanicus )

Systematics
Order : Sweet grass (Poales)
Family : Sweet grasses (Poaceae)
Subfamily : Pooideae
Tribe : Ampelodesmeae
Genre : Ampelodesmos
Type : Diss
Scientific name of the  tribe
(Conert) Tutin
Scientific name of the  genus
Ampelodesmos
link
Scientific name of the  species
Ampelodesmos mauritanicus
( Poir. ) T. Durand & Schinz

Diss ( Ampelodesmos mauritanicus ) is the only kind of the plant genus Ampelodesmos and the tribe Ampelodesmeae within the sweet grass family (Poaceae).

description

Inflorescences

Vegetative characteristics

Diss is a perennial herbaceous plant that forms large clumps and reaches heights of 1 to 3 meters. The leaves are up to 1 meter long, 7 millimeters wide, coarse, very rough and strongly ribbed. Later the leaf margins are rolled up. The ligule is 8 to 15 millimeters long, lanceolate and ciliate on the edge.

Generative characteristics

The inflorescence is a richly branched panicle up to 50 centimeters long and slightly one-sided . The stalked spikelets are 10 to 15 millimeters long and two to five-flowered. Often the glumes are purple in color. The lemmas are hairy on the back.

The flowering period extends from April to June.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 48.

Ampelodesmos mauritanicus in the habitat

Occurrence

Diss thrives in the western Mediterranean in garigues and maquis . In Europe, the species is originally found in Spain, France, Italy, Sicily and Greece as well as on the Balearic Islands, Sardinia and Corsica. Outside of Europe it is originally found in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.

The species often spreads after a fire.

Systematics

Ampelodesmos mauritanicus is the only species of the only genus Ampelodesmos of the Ampelodesmeae tribe within the Poaceae family .

The first description took place in 1789 under the name (Basionym) Arundo mauritanica by Jean Louis Marie Poiret in Voyage en Barbarie , 2, S, 104. The genus Ampelodesmos was in 1827 by Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link in Hortus Regius Botanicus Berolinensis , Volume 1, p. 136 set up. The new combination to Ampelodesmos mauritanicus (Poir.) T.Durand & Schinz was published in 1894 by Théophile Alexis Durand and Schinz in Conspectus Florae Africae , 5, p. 874.

Further synonyms for the valid scientific name are: Ampelodesmos bicolor (Poir.) Kunth , Ampelodesmos mauritanica (Poir.) T.Durand & Schinz , Ampelodesmos tenax (Vahl) Link , Ampelodonax bicolor (Poir.) Lojac. Cirillo , Arundo ampelodesmon , Arundo bicolor Poir. , Arundo festucoides Desf. , Arundo mauritanica Poir. , Arundo mediterranea Danin , Arundo tenax Vahl , Avena festucoides (Desf.) Raspail , Calamagrostis bicolor (Poir.) JFGmel. , Donax festucoides (Desf.) P.Beauv. A synonym for Ampelodesmos is Ampelodonax Lojac.

use

Ropes are made from the leaves and it is used to make paper.

Common name

Other common German names for this plant species are: Mauritanian beard grass, rock reed, vine cane.

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Ampelodesmos. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved January 23, 2020.
  2. Peter Schönfelder , Ingrid Schönfelder: The new cosmos Mediterranean flora. Franckh Kosmos Verlag Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-440-10742-3 . P. 400.
  3. a b Ampelodesmos mauritanicus at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Retrieved August 12, 2013.
  4. Ampelodesmos mauritanicus in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
  5. Ampelodesmos mauritanicus at Plants For A Future . Retrieved August 12, 2013.
  6. FAO: PRODUCTS AND MARKETS - AMPELODESMOS MAURITANICUS - The role of Ampelodesmos mauritanicus and fiber plants in central Italy
  7. Ampelodesmos mauritanica as "Felsschilf", "Diss"

literature

  • Peter Schönfelder , Ingrid Schönfelder: What is in bloom in the Mediterranean? (=  Kosmos nature guide ). 2nd Edition. Franckh, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-440-05790-9 .
  • Thomas Gaskell Tutin : Ampelodesmos Link . In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones) . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20108-X , pp. 252 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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