Leaflet lilac

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Leaflet lilac
Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Olive family (Oleaceae)
Genre : Lilac ( syringa )
Type : Leaflet lilac
Scientific name
Syringa pinnatifolia
Hemsl.

The Fiederblättrige lilacs ( Syringa pinnatifolia ) is an upright shrub with white to pale pink flowers from the family of Olive Family (Oleaceae). The natural range is in the southwest of China. The species is rarely used as an ornamental shrub.

description

The pinnate lilac is a 1 to 4 meter high, upright shrub with flaking bark . The branches are usually square and bare. Terminal buds are missing. The leaves have a stalk 0.5 to 1.5 centimeters long. The leaf blade is pinnate and forms seven to eleven rarely 13 opposite or almost opposite, sitting leaflets . The leaflets are 0.5 to 3 inches long and 0.3 to 1.3 inches wide, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, glabrous or sparsely hairy on the upper side. The tip is pointed, pointed or blunt, the base wedge-shaped to more or less rounded.

The flowers grow in 2 to 6.5 centimeters long and 2 to 5 centimeters across, slightly nodding, bare panicles . The flower stalks are 2 to 5 millimeters long. The chalice is about 2.5 millimeters long. The corolla is 1 to 1.6 centimeters wide, colored white or pale pink and a little purple. The corolla tube is 0.8 to 1.2 inches long and slightly funnel-shaped. The corolla lobes are ovate to oblong and spread out. The anthers are yellow and are about 4 millimeters below the throat. As fruits , 1 to 1.3 centimeters long, elongated, smooth capsules are formed.

The leaved lilacs bloom from May to June, the fruits ripen in August and September.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 46.

distribution

The natural range is in the southwest of China in the Gansu Province , in Ningxia , in the east of Qinghai , in the south of Shaanxi , in the west of Sichuan and in Inner Mongolia . The leaved lilac grows in thickets on mountain passages at altitudes of 2600 to 3100 meters on dry to fresh, weakly acidic to strongly alkaline, sandy, sandy-gravelly or sandy-loamy, nutrient-rich soils in sunny to light-shady locations. The species is sensitive to moisture, loves warmth and is usually frost hardy .

Systematics

The Fiederblättrige Lilac ( Syringa pinnatifolia ) is a kind of the genus of Lilac ( Syringa ) in the family of Oleaceae (Oleaceae). There the genus is assigned to the tribe Oleeae. The species was first scientifically described by William Botting Hemsley in 1906 . The genus name Syringa was chosen by Linnaeus in 1753, previously from around the 16th century the name was used both for the common lilac ( Syringa vulgaris ) and for the European pipe bush ( Philadelphus coronarius ). It was probably derived from the Greek "syrigs", a wind instrument that can be made from the branches of the pipe bush. The specific epithet pinnatifolia comes from Latin and means "feather-leaved". It refers to the shape of the leaves.

use

The leaflet lilac is very rarely used as an ornamental shrub because of its decorative flowers .

proof

literature

  • Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 15: Myrsinaceae through Loganiaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1996, ISBN 0-915279-37-1 , pp. 286 (English).
  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 642.
  • Jost Fitschen: Woody flora . 12th, revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2007, ISBN 3-494-01422-1 , p. 828 .
  • Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 (reprint from 1996).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 642 and after Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 828
  2. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 642
  3. ↑ a b c Mei-chen Chang, Lien-ching Chiu, Zhi Wei, Peter S. Green: Syringa pinnatifolia , in the Flora of China , Volume 15, p. 286
  4. ↑ Syringa pinnatifolia at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
  5. ↑ a b c Syringa pinnatifolia. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed June 24, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 625
  7. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 487

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