Three-horned levkoye
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The three-horned Levkoje ( Matthiola tricuspidata ) is a species of the genus Levkojen ( Matthiola ) within the family of the cruciferous plants (Brassicaceae).
description
The three-horned Levkoje is an annual , woolly hairy to gray-felted plant that is 10–40 centimeters high. The simple leaves are lobed or roughly toothed to pinnate, their lobes are egg-shaped and rounded at the tip. The pedicels of the lower flowers are 2–5 millimeters long at the time of fruiting. The sepals are 7-11 millimeters long. The petals are 15–22 millimeters long and light purple or white. The star-haired and linear pods are protruding or curved, they are cylindrical, 25–100 millimeters long and 2–3 millimeters wide. The scar lobes have grown together to form a third horn. All three short horns are 2 to over 6 millimeters long, they are triangular and pointed.
The flowering period is between March and July.
The species has chromosome number 2n = 14 or 16.
Occurrence
Matthiola tricuspidata is found in Morocco, Algeria , Tunisia , Spain, the Balearic Islands , Corsica, Sardinia , Sicily, Malta, France, Italy, Croatia , Montenegro , Albania, Greece, Crete , the Aegean Sea, Cyprus , Turkey and in Israel before. It thrives on sandy coasts.
Taxonomy
The three-horned Levkoje was first described by Carl von Linné in Sp. Pl., Ed. 1: 663, 1753 as Cheiranthus tricuspidatus . The species was placed by William Townsend Aiton in Hortus Kew., Ed. 2, 4: 120, 1812 in the genus Matthiola . A synonym for Matthiola tricuspidata (L.) WTAiton is Matthiola tricuspidata subsp. pseudoxyceras Jafri .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Peter Schönfelder , Ingrid Schönfelder: The new cosmos Mediterranean flora. Franckh-Kosmos-Verlag Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-440-10742-3 , p. 154.
- ^ Peter William Ball: Matthiola R.Br. P. 341. In: Thomas Gaskell Tutin et al: Flora Europaea , 2nd edition, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press 1992, ISBN 0-521-41007-X . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Matthiola tricuspidata at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
- ↑ a b Karol Marhold, 2011: Brassicaceae. : Datasheet Matthiola tricuspidata In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity .
Web links
- Thomas Meyer, Michael Hassler: Mediterranean and Alpine flora. Datasheet and photos .