Pale grape leaves

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Pale grape leaves
Inflorescence and leaves

Inflorescence and leaves

Systematics
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Order : Rose-like (rosales)
Family : Rose family (Rosaceae)
Subfamily : Spiraeoideae
Genre : Grape sparrow ( Neillia )
Type : Pale grape leaves
Scientific name
Neillia sinensis
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The pale grape sparrow ( Neillia sinensis ) is a shrub- forming plant from the rose family . It is found in China.

description

The pale grape sparrow is a shrub up to 4 meters high with reddish-brown, bare and stemmed shoots. The buds are red-brown, egg-shaped, with a blunt end, and three to four bud scales slightly hairy on the edge. The leaves have a 7 to 15 millimeter long, slightly hairy to almost bare stalk. The stipules are lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, pointed or pointed and entire. The leaf blade is simple, 5 to 11 inches long and 3 to 6 inches wide, ovate to ovoid-elliptical, irregularly lobed, long and pointed with a rounded to heart-shaped base and a double-serrated edge. Both sides are bald, but the underside may be somewhat hairy in the nerve axils.

The flowers are numerous in 4 to 9 cm long clusters with a bare stalk. They have a diameter of 6 to 8 millimeters and a 1 to 10 millimeter long, bare flower stalk. The flower cup is cylindrical, 7 to 12 millimeters long and bare or glandular on both sides. The sepals are 3 to 4 millimeters long, triangular, significantly shorter than the calyx tube, glabrous, entire with a pointed or tapered end. The petals are pink, about 3 millimeters long and obovate. 10 to 15 stamens of unequal length are formed per flower . The ovary is long ovate, hairy at the top and has four to five ovules. The follicles are long and elliptical, the seeds ovate. The species blooms from May to June, the fruits ripen from August to September.

Distribution and ecology

The natural distribution area is in the temperate climate zone in the Chinese provinces of Gansu , Guangdong , Guangxi , Guizhou , Henan , Hubei , Hunan , Jiangxi , Shaanxi , Sichuan and Yunnan . It grows in mixed forests in floodplains and on river banks at altitudes of 1000 to 2500 meters on moderately dry to fresh, slightly acidic to strongly alkaline, sandy, gravelly or loamy, nutrient-rich soils in sunny locations. The species loves warmth and is usually frost hardy.

Systematics

The pale grapes spar ( Neillia sinensis ) is a kind of the genus of neillia ( Nellia ) in the family of Rosaceae (Rosaceae), subfamily spiraeoideae, tribe Neillieae. The species was first described by Daniel Oliver in 1886 .

There are three varieties :

  • Neillia sinensis var. Caudata Rehder : Leaf blade with a divided leaf margin and tapered, pointed lobes. The flower stalk is 2 to 3 millimeters long, the flower cup about 8 millimeters and glandular on the outside. The petals are also tapered and pointed. The range of the variety is in the southeast of Yunnan at altitudes of 2000 to 2100 meters.
  • Neillia sinensis var. Duclouxii (Cardot ex JE Vidal) TT Yü : Leaf blade lobed with blunt or pointed lobes. The flower stalk is 1 to 2 millimeters long, the flower cup 7 to 8 millimeters and sparsely glandular on the outside. The petals are pointed. The range of the variety is in northeastern Yunnan at altitudes of about 2000 meters.
  • Neillia sinensis var. Sinensis : The flower stalk is 3 to 10 millimeters long, the flower cup 10 to 12 millimeters and bare on the outside. The distribution area of ​​the variety is in the provinces of Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan at an altitude of 1000 to 2500 meters.

use

The pale grape spear is sometimes used as an ornamental wood because of its decorative flowers .

proof

literature

  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 428.
  • Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 9: Pittosporaceae through Connaraceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2003, ISBN 1-930723-14-8 , pp. 80 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora of the woods
  2. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 428
  3. ↑ a b c d e Gu Cuizhi, Crinan Alexander: Neillia sinensis in Flora of China. Volume 9, p. 80
  4. ↑ a b Neillia thibetica. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed February 27, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Gu Cuizhi, Crinan Alexander: Neillia sinensis var. Caudata in Flora of China. Volume 9, p. 80
  6. ↑ Gu Cuizhi, Crinan Alexander: Neillia sinensis var. Duclouxii in Flora of China. Volume 9, p. 80
  7. ↑ Gu Cuizhi, Crinan Alexander: Neillia sinensis var. Sinensis in Flora of China. Volume 9, p. 80

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