Bufonia

Bufonia
	Bufonia paniculata
Systematics
	Eudicotyledons
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Carnation family (Caryophyllaceae)
Subfamily :	Alsinoideae
Genre :	Bufonia
Scientific name
	Bufonia
	L.

Bufonia is a genus of plants in the Alsinoideae subfamily within the carnation family (Caryophyllaceae).

description

Illustration from Contributions à la connaissance de la flore du nord-ouest de l'Afrique , panel V by Bufonia mauritanica and Bufonia tenuifolia

Vegetative characteristics

The Bufonia species are annual or perennial, less often biennial, herbaceous plants . The stems are usually strongly branched at the base, the flowering shoots are upright. The opposite leaves are linear-bristle-shaped and pressed against the stem. On the flowering shoots they are shorter than the internodes .

Generative characteristics

The panicle-like inflorescence is zymotic . The flower stalks are short.

The hermaphroditic flowers are fourfold and self-pollinating. Of the four sepals , the outer two are shorter than the inner; they are lanceolate with a membranous edge. The four petals are as long or shorter than the sepals and white. There are two to eight stamens . There are two styluses.

The capsule fruits enclosed by the inflorescence open with two teeth. The one or two seeds are compressed, ovate, and warty.

Locations

All Bufonia species occurring in Europe thrive on dry, sandy or stony soils .

Systematics and distribution

The genus Bufonia was first published in 1753 by Carl von Linné . Type species is Bufonia tenuifolia L. The genus name honors the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707–1788).

The distribution area of the genus Bufonia includes the Canary Islands , the Mediterranean and the Irano-Turanian region eastwards to Afghanistan and Pakistan .

The genus Bufonia contains 20 to 32 species. Here is a selection of the types:

Bufonia calyculata Boiss. & Balansa : It occurs in Turkey .
Bufonia chevallieri Batt. : It occurs in Algeria .
Bufonia duvaljouvei Batt. & Trot. : It occurs in three subspecies in Algeria and Morocco.
Bufonia ephedrina Rech. F. : It occurs from Syria to Israel .
Bufonia euboica Phitos & Kamari : It occurs in Greece .
Bufonia macropetala Willk. (Syn .: Bufonia willkommiana Boiss. ): It occurs in Portugal and Spain .
Bufonia mauritanica Murb. : The homeland is Morocco and Algeria.
Bufonia multiceps Decne. : This endemic occurs only on the Sinai Peninsula .
Bufonia murbeckii Emb .: It occurs only in Morocco.
Bufonia oliveriana Ser. : It occurs from Turkey and Armenia eastwards to Pakistan .
Bufonia paniculata Dubois : It occurs in the Canary Islands , Spain, France , Switzerland , Italy , Croatia , Macedonia , Bulgaria , Greece , on the Aegean islands and in Syria .
Bufonia perennis Pourr. : It occurs only in northeastern Spain and southern France.
Bufonia stricta (Sm.) Gürke : It occurs in two subspecies in the mountains in Greece and Crete .
Bufonia strohlii Emb. & Maire : It occurs only in Morocco.
Bufonia tenuifolia L .: It occurs in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, in southern Europe from Spain to Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan , Ukraine and Moldova .
Bufonia virgata Boiss. : It occurs in Turkey, Israel and Jordan .

literature

Geoffrey Halliday: Bufonia L. 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. 160–161 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).