Facchini's saxifrage
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Facchinis Saxifrage ( Saxifraga facchinii ) |
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Facchinis saxifrage ( Saxifraga facchinii ) is a species in the genus saxifrage ( Saxifraga ) in the family Saxifragaceae (Saxifragaceae). The species is named in honor of an Italian doctor and botanist, Francesco Facchini (1788–1852), who also wrote a flora of South Tyrol.
features
Facchinis saxifrage is a perennial plant that reaches heights of up to 5 centimeters. It grows in small lawns or flat cushions and forms non-flowering rosettes. The leaves are up to 6 millimeters long, 2 millimeters wide, linear-lanceolate and rounded . Both the surface and the edge are hairy glands . The stem is short, glandular, hardly protrudes beyond the rosettes and has 1 to 4 flowers. The petals are pale yellow to light or dark purple in color, obovate to wedge-shaped and truncated at the front or slightly edged. They are only slightly longer than the egg-shaped and hairy sepals .
Flowering time is from July to August.
Occurrence
Facchini's saxifrage occurs in the South Tyrolean Alpine Dolomites in crevices and on damp stone rubble on limestone at altitudes of 2000 to 3300 meters. The type is not common.
supporting documents
- Xaver Finkenzeller, Jürke Grau : Alpine flowers (Steinbach's natural guide). Mosaik Verlag GmbH, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-576-10558-1 .
- Klaus Kaplan in Gustav Hegi : Illustrated flora of Central Europe . 3rd edition Volume IV, Part 2 A, page 214. Blackwell-Wissenschaftsverlag Berlin 1995. ISBN 3-8263-3016-1
