Fagonia cretica

Fagonia cretica
	Fagonia cretica
Systematics
	Rosids
	Eurosiden I
Order :	Zygophyllales (Zygophyllales)
Family :	Lignum-vitae (Zygophyllaceae)
Genre :	Fagonia
Type :	Fagonia cretica
Scientific name
	Fagonia cretica
	L.

Fagonia cretica is a species of the genus Fagonia . It is native to the Mediterranean and the only representative of the genus that can also be found in Europe.

features

Flower of Fagonia cretica

Fagonia cretica is a perennial subshrub that reaches heights of 10 to 40 centimeters. The plant is almost bare and prostrate. The stem is angular. The leaflets are 5 to 15 millimeters in size, lanceolate, thorn-tipped and more or less leathery. The flowers stand individually in the armpits. The crown is purple and sloping. The capsule is 5 millimeters in size and has a sharp pentagonal shape. The stylus are 2 to 4 millimeters in size.

The flowering period extends from February to June.

Fagonia cretica is diploid with a chromosome number of 2n = 18.

Fagonia cretica in Lanzarote

Occurrence

Fagonia cretica has its distribution center in the southern Mediterranean area and occurs in all North African countries from Morocco to Egypt . It reaches Asia on the island of Cyprus , it occurs on the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra and reaches Europe in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula , on Mallorca , in Calabria , Sicily and Malta as well as on Crete and Anafi . Of the Atlantic islands, Fagonia cretica populates Madeira , the Ilhas Selvagens and all seven Canary Islands and reaches its southern border on the Cape Verde islands of Santo Antão , São Vicente , Sal and Boavista .

This species grows on disturbed areas as well as in semi-natural, open vegetation on sand and gravel, sometimes also on gypsum, chalk or on salt soils. Their altitude ranges in Spain and North Africa from sea level to about 1100 m.

Systematics and history of discovery

Fagonia cretica was first published by Carl von Linné in 1753 . It represents the type of the genus Fagonia . Although it is very rare in Crete, it was found there by Giuseppe Casabona around 1592 and portrayed by the illustrator Georg Dyckmann .

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 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Björn-Axel Beier: A revision of the desert shrub Fagonia (Zygophyllaceae) . In: Systematics and Biodiversity . tape 3 , no. 3 , 2005, p. 221-263 , doi : 10.1017 / S1477200005001684 .
^ Fagonia cretica , chromosome number at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
^ Fagonia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
^ Karl Heinz Rechinger : Flora Aegaea. Flora of the islands and peninsulas of the Aegean Sea . In: Memoranda of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, mathematical and natural science class . tape 105 , no. 1 , 1943, p. 281 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
^ Alfred Hansen, Per Sunding: Flora of Macaronesia. Checklist of vascular plants . In: Sommerfeltia . 4th edition. tape 17 , 1993, p. 194-195 .
↑ Carl von Linné: Species Plantarum. Volume 1, Lars Salvius, Stockholm 1753, p. 386 ( digitized version ).
↑ Hans-Walter Lack: The early botanical exploration of the island of Crete . In: Annals of the Natural History Museum Vienna . 98B, Supplement, 1996, pp. 183–236 (here: pp. 191–192) ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

Web links

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[Beier2005-1] Björn-Axel Beier: A revision of the desert shrub Fagonia (Zygophyllaceae) . In: Systematics and Biodiversity . tape 3 , no. 3 , 2005, p. 221-263 , doi : 10.1017 / S1477200005001684 .

[Tropicos-2] Fagonia cretica , chromosome number at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

[GRIN-3] Fagonia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved March 3, 2017.

[FAe-4] Karl Heinz Rechinger : Flora Aegaea. Flora of the islands and peninsulas of the Aegean Sea . In: Memoranda of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, mathematical and natural science class . tape 105 , no. 1 , 1943, p. 281 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

[Som-5] Alfred Hansen, Per Sunding: Flora of Macaronesia. Checklist of vascular plants . In: Sommerfeltia . 4th edition. tape 17 , 1993, p. 194-195 .

[L1753-6] Carl von Linné: Species Plantarum. Volume 1, Lars Salvius, Stockholm 1753, p. 386 ( digitized version ).

[Lack1998-7] Hans-Walter Lack: The early botanical exploration of the island of Crete . In: Annals of the Natural History Museum Vienna . 98B, Supplement, 1996, pp. 183–236 (here: pp. 191–192) ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).