Bellevalia brevipedicellata

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Bellevalia brevipedicellata
Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Scilloideae
Genre : Bellevalia
Type : Bellevalia brevipedicellata
Scientific name
Bellevalia brevipedicellata
Turrill

Bellevalia brevipedicellata is a species of the genus Bellevalia in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae).

description

Bellevalia brevipedicellata is a perennial bulb plant that reaches heights of 6 to 18 centimeters. The leaves are ribbon-shaped, 10 to 40 millimeters wide and often slightly wavy at the edge.

The flowers are 9 to 30 in a cylindrical raceme ; many of them are sterile. The flower stalks are 0.5 to 1.5 millimeters long. The flowers are 5.5 to 7 millimeters in size, short tubular and white in color; the tips are pink with a green stripe. The up to ten capsules per grape are 8 to 13 mm long and 8 to 11 mm wide.

The flowering period extends from January to March.

Bellevalia brevipedicellata has a diploid set of chromosomes ; the number of chromosomes is 2n = 8.

Occurrence and endangerment

Bellevalia brevipedicellata is endemic to Crete in the Chania regional district and occurs in the southwest of the main island and on the offshore islands of Gavdos and Gavdopoula . The species grows in Phrygana on stony to rocky, calcareous substrate at altitudes of 0 to 250 meters. It is classified as endangered ("Vulnerable") in Greece's Red List of Endangered Species .

Similar species

Bellevalia sitiaca , a very similar, therefore temporarilyassigned to Bellevalia brevipedicellata , but tetraploid ,endemic speciesin the Lasithi Prefecture, was newly described in 1999. Because of their large capsules, both species have beenconfusedwith the Muscari macrocarpum, which ismissing on Crete.

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literature

  • Zacharias Kypriotakis, Dimitris Tzanoudakis: A new species of Bellevalia from eastern Crete and its confusion with Muscari macrocarpum Sweet. In: Botanica Helvetica. Volume 109, No. 1, 1999, pp. 85-90, DOI: 10.5169 / seals-73288 .
  • Nicholas J. Turland: Bellevalia brevipedicellata. In: Dimitrios Phitos, Arne Strid, Sven Snogerup, Werner Greuter (eds.): The Red Data Book of rare and threatened plants of Greece . WWF, Athens 1995, ISBN 960-7506-04-9 , pp. 84-85 .
  • William Bertram Turrill: On the flora of the Nearer East: XXII. New records and new species from Greece and the Greek islands. In: Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew. Volume 1940, No. 6, pp. 262-266, JSTOR 4111593 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Zacharias Kypriotakis, Dimitris Tzanoudakis: A new species of Bellevalia from eastern Crete and its confusion with Muscari macrocarpum Sweet. In: Botanica Helvetica. Volume 109, No. 1, 1999, pp. 85-90, DOI: 10.5169 / seals-73288 .
  2. ^ Erwin Bergmeier, Ralf Jahn, Armin Jagel: Flora and vegetation of Gávdos (Greece), the southernmost European island. I. Vascular flora and chorological relations. In: Candollea. Vol. 52, No. 2, 1997, pp. 305-358.
  3. ↑ Erwin Bergmeier, Thomas Blockeel, Niels Böhling, Christina Fournaraki, Panagiota Gotsiou, Ralf Jahn, Richard Lansdown, Nicholas Turland: An inventory of the vascular plants and bryophytes of Gavdopoula island (S Aegean, Greece) and its phytogeographical significance. In: Willdenowia. Volume 41, No. 1, 2011, pp. 179-190, DOI: 10.3372 / wi.41.41121 .

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