Small-flowered Columbine

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Small-flowered Columbine
Small-flowered Columbine (Aquilegia einseleana)

Small-flowered Columbine ( Aquilegia einseleana )

Systematics
Order : Buttercups (Ranunculales)
Family : Buttercup Family (Ranunculaceae)
Subfamily : Isopyroideae
Tribe : Isopyreae
Genre : Columbines ( Aquilegia )
Type : Small-flowered Columbine
Scientific name
Aquilegia einseleana
FW Schulz

The small-flowered Columbine , also called Einseles Columbine ( Aquilegia einseleana ), is a species of the genus Columbine ( Aquilegia ) and thus also of the buttercup family ( Ranunculaceae ). It is named after its discoverer, Dr. med. August Max Einsele (Munich June 9, 1803– February 10, 1870 Murnau), a Bavarian doctor and botanist who discovered the species in 1847 in Wimbachgriess near Berchtesgaden and recognized it as something special. The first description that is valid today was made in 1848 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz , who named the species after his friend Einsele.

description

The small-flowered Columbine is persistent and 10 to 45 cm high. It develops few basal leaves, its stem is erect, 1 to 1.5 mm thick, almost glabrous below and somewhat glandular-downy-haired above and mostly unbranched. The leaves are stalked up to 12 cm long and are doubly tripartite. The leaflets are long-stalked, obovate or almost rounded, with a wedge-shaped base, lobed or notched, rarely entire, gray-green, glabrous on the underside and almost glabrous on the top. The uppermost stem leaves are undivided and sessile. The flowers are stalked, nodding and blue-violet, their stems are up to 10 cm long. The bracts are oblong-ovate, 15 to 19 mm long and 7 to 9 mm wide and pointed.

The nectar leaves are tubular, 8 to 10 mm long and 6 to 9 mm wide. The spur is 7 to 10 mm long and 2 to 3 mm wide, almost straight and downy-haired. The stamens are shorter than the petals. Five follicles with 6 to 7 mm long styles develop. The flowering period is between June and July.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 14.

Occurrence

The small-flowered Columbine thrives on warm, lime-rich, loose, loamy stone soils in the border of bushes (order Origanetalia) and in rock rubble heaps (association of Petasition paradoxi and Seslerion albicantis). Their distribution area extends in the Eastern and Southern Alps from Northern Italy to Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Slovenia. However, the focus is on the southern Alps. In Germany it thrives at altitudes between 900 and 1800 m.

literature

  • Jürgen Damboldt, Walter Zimmermann : Aquilegia. In: Karl Heinz Rechinger, Jürgen Damboldt (Hrsg.): Illustrated flora of Central Europe. Pteridophyta, Spermatophyta . Founded by Gustav Hegi. 2nd, completely revised edition. Volume III. Part 3: Angiospermae: Dicotyledones 1 (Nymphaeaceen, Ceratophyllaceen, Magnoliaceae, Paeoniaceen, Ranunculaceae) . Carl Hanser and Paul Parey, Munich and Berlin / Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-446-10432-1 , p. 128–140 (published in 1965–1974).
  • James Cullen, Vernon Hilton Heywood , John Robert Akeroyd: Aquilegia. In: TG Tutin, NA Burges, AO Chater, JR Edmondson, VH Heywood, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . 2nd, revised edition. Volume 1: Psilotaceae to Platanaceae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York / Melbourne 1993, ISBN 0-521-41007-X , pp. 287–290 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Willy Zahlheimer: Forays into Landshut botany. In: Nature Conservation in Lower Bavaria. Issue 6th Symposium on Nature Conservation and Botany in Lower Bavaria March 27, 2009, pp. 7–34.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , pp.  398 .

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