Cornucopia fedie
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The cornucopia fedie ( Fedia cornucopiae ) is a species of the genus Fedia in the subfamily of the valerian family (Valerianoideae).
features
The cornucopia fedie is an annual plant that reaches heights of 3 to 30 centimeters. It is bald, upright to ascending, forked and somewhat plump. The leaves are spatulate to elliptical and opposite. The lower leaves are entire, more or less petiolate and 2 to 15 centimeters long. The upper ones are seated, short-toothed and smaller.
The flowers are united to form pairs of terminal heads. At the time of fruiting, the flower stalks are inflated. The ovary is subordinate. The calyx is a ring-shaped, non-enlarging bulge. The corolla is purple and 8 to 16 millimeters long. Your tube is slightly bulbous, curved and up to 4 millimeters long. The five corners are mottled pink, flat and uneven. Usually there are two stamens.
The fruit is broadly ovate and has greatly enlarged sterile parts.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 32.
Occurrence
The cornucopia fedie is found in fields and wasteland in the Mediterranean . Their distribution area includes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, France, Italy, the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Greece and Crete.
use
The plant is eaten as a salad before flowering.
Systematics
Fedia cornucopiae was 1790 by Joseph gardener in De fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum , Volume 2, Number 1, page 37, Table 86, Figure 3, first described . Basionym is Valeriana cornucopiae , which was published in 1753 by Carl von Linné in Species Plantarum , Volume 1, page 31. Synonyms for Fedia cornucopiae are Fedia graeca Dufr. , Fedia incrassata Moench , Fedia langei Pomel , Fedia scorpioides Dufr. and Mitrophora cornucopiae ( L. ) Raf.
Related types are:
- Fedia graciliflora fish. & CA Mey. : It occurs in five subspecies in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Portugal, Greece, Crete and Mallorca.
- Fedia pallescens (Maire) Mathez : It occurs in two subspecies in Morocco.
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literature
- Ehrentraud Bayer, Karl-Peter Buttler , Xaver Finkenzeller, Jürke Grau : Plants of the Mediterranean. Mosaik Verlag GmbH, Munich 1986 ( The colored nature guides ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Fedia cornucopiae at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ^ A b c E. by Raab-Straube & T. Henning (2017+): Valerianaceae. - In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Data sheet Valerianaceae
- ^ Joseph Gärtner: De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum . tape 2 , no. 1 , 1790, p. 37 ( online digitized version at botanicus ).
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Species Plantarum . tape 2 . Stockholm 1753, p. 847 ( First online publication of Valeriana cornucopiae digitized at Biodiversity Heritage Library ).
- ↑ Fedia cornucopiae. Synonyms. In: The Plant List - A working list of all plant species. January 1, 2010, accessed on April 11, 2012 (English, assessment of species names with regard to the degree of probability of their validity).
- ^ GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Taxon: Fedia cornucopiae. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area, accessed April 11, 2012 .
