Crocus cartwrightianus

Crocus cartwrightianus
	Crocus cartwrightianus
Systematics
Class :	Bedecktsamer (Magnoliopsida)
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Iris family (Iridaceae)
Genre :	Crocuses ( crocus )
Type :	Crocus cartwrightianus
Scientific name
	Crocus cartwrightianus
	Herb.

Crocus cartwrightianus is a plant from the genus of crocus ( Crocus ). It is considered to be the origin of the saffron crocus .

Crocus cartwrightianus 'Albus'

features

Crocus cartwrightianus is a perennial tuber geophyte that reaches heights of 4 to 10 centimeters. The leaves are mostly ciliate. The tuber shell consists of fine mesh fibers. The throat is white and downy at the point of attachment of the stamens. The flowers are lilac to purple in color with dark veins or white with sometimes a purple background. They are of the same color on the outside. The branches of the style are red and long. The anthers and pollen are yellow.

The flowering period extends from October to December.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16.

Occurrence

Crocus cartwrightianus occurs in the Aegean Sea . In Crete, the species grows in open phrygana, lawns and pine forests at altitudes of 30 to 120 meters.

supporting documents

Ralf Jahn, Peter Schönfelder: Excursion flora for Crete . With contributions by Alfred Mayer and Martin Scheuerer. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 1995, ISBN 3-8001-3478-0 , p. 367 .

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Schmidt, Tony Heitkam, Susan Liedtke, Veit Schubert, Gerhard Menzel: Adding color to a century-old enigma: multi-color chromosome identification unravels the autotriploid nature of saffron (Crocus sativus) as a hybrid of wild Crocus cartwrightianus cytotypes . In: New Phytologist . tape 0 , no. 0 , January 28, 2019, ISSN 1469-8137 , doi : 10.1111 / nph.15715 .
↑ Zahra Nemati: The origin of saffron: progenitors, areas and transcriptomics of economic traits . In: Dissertation, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . 2018, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 3: 4-23834 .
↑ Zahra Nemati, Frank R. Blattner, Helmut Kern Dorff, Osman Erol, Dorte Harpke: Phylogeny of the saffron crocus-species group, Crocus Crocus series (Iridaceae) . In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . tape 127 , no. 0 , June 21, 2018, ISSN 1055-7903 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ympev.2018.06.036 .
↑ Crocus cartwrightianus , chromosome number at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

Web links

Thomas Meyer: Data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia )

[1] Thomas Schmidt, Tony Heitkam, Susan Liedtke, Veit Schubert, Gerhard Menzel: Adding color to a century-old enigma: multi-color chromosome identification unravels the autotriploid nature of saffron (Crocus sativus) as a hybrid of wild Crocus cartwrightianus cytotypes . In: New Phytologist . tape 0 , no. 0 , January 28, 2019, ISSN 1469-8137 , doi : 10.1111 / nph.15715 .

[2] Zahra Nemati: The origin of saffron: progenitors, areas and transcriptomics of economic traits . In: Dissertation, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . 2018, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 3: 4-23834 .

[3] Zahra Nemati, Frank R. Blattner, Helmut Kern Dorff, Osman Erol, Dorte Harpke: Phylogeny of the saffron crocus-species group, Crocus Crocus series (Iridaceae) . In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . tape 127 , no. 0 , June 21, 2018, ISSN 1055-7903 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ympev.2018.06.036 .

[Tropicos-4] Crocus cartwrightianus , chromosome number at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis