Kitaibel Columbine
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The Kitaibel Columbine ( Aquilegia kitaibelii , Kitaibelova kandilka ( Croat .)) Is a species of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae).
The small columbine is an endemic species from montane and subalpine limestone-rich locations in the north-western coastal Dinarides in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina . It is a protected wild plant in its home countries.
description
The Kitaibel Columbine is a perennial herbaceous plant with a richly branched root system and a permanent taproot.
Sprout axis The upright, 15 to 30 cm high stems are hairy in the upper section and almost bare at the base of the shoot. The stems are often brownish, sparsely branched and mostly (1) 2–3 (6) -flower.
Leaf green gray The basal leaves, also often crowded brownish, hairy undersides heavily shaggy. The plant is characterized by the absence of stem leaves. The leaves are deeply incised, sessile or on very short stems.
Flowering The flowers are medium sized, fairly upright, blue violet uniform. The flowers appear in July and are two to three centimeters in diameter. The five tepals are each 1.7 cm long. Nectar leaves up to 2.2 to 2.4 cm long; the spur is thickened button-like only at the tip, about 0.8 cm long. The numerous stamens are shorter than the nectaries and so do not protrude beyond their edge. The 5 to 10 glandular hairy follicles contain a multitude of 2 mm long and approx. 1–1.2 mm wide dark, shiny seeds.
distribution
The Kitaibel columbine is widespread in the coastal northwest Dinarides of Croatia and Bosnia. It populates the subalpine level between Risnjak and Velebit in Croatia and goes in the east to the Dinara in Bosnia.
Location and plant sociology
Locations of the Kitaibel-Akelei can be found in lime-rich locations in the subalpine zone at approx. 1400–1600 m above sea level. It is found there in limestone debris heaps and especially on limestone rocks. From a plant- sociological point of view , the crevices of the subalpine altitude level in which the Kitaibel columbine is found belong to the class Asplenietea rupestria. As a distinctly calcic species, it is a character species of the carbonate rock corridors (Potentilletalia caulescentis). Ivo Horvat differentiated the Kitaibel columbines in these limestone crevices in the Micromerion association into plant associations with Asplenium fissum and Micromeria croatica .
As a vicarious agent , the Dinaric Columbine replaces the Kitaibel Columbine at comparable locations in the Southeast Dinarides.
The associations of the limestone crevice corridors are of particular interest for nature conservation as sites rich in relics in the accumulation of endemic taxa .
Web links
- EOL entry
- Aquilegia kitaibelii inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Jogan, N., 2010. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Šilić, Č. Endemicne biljke. - 3rd izd. - Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1990. p. 35 s.
- ↑ a b Analitička Flora Jugoslavije. vol 2, pp. 366, Zagreb 1973.
- ^ Paul Ascherson and Paul Graebner (1829). Synopsis of the Central European flora . Vol. V./2., Ranales (Ranunculaceae, continued), pp. 652., Borntraeger, Leipzig.
- ^ Ivo Horvat , Vjekoslav Glavač, Heinz Ellenberg : Vegetation Southeast Europe. Fischer, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-437-30168-3 . P. 596