Fringed gentians

Fringed gentians
	Common fringed gentian ( Gentianopsis ciliata )
Systematics
	Euasterids I
Order :	Enzianartige (Gentianales)
Family :	Gentian Family (Gentianaceae)
Tribe :	Gentianeae
Sub tribus :	Swertiinae
Genre :	Fringed gentians
Scientific name
	Gentianopsis
	Ma

The fringed gentians ( Gentianopsis ) form a genus of plants within the gentian family (Gentianaceae).

description

Illustration from Storm of the Common Fringed Gentian ( Gentianopsis ciliata )

Gentianopsis holopetala

Vegetative characteristics

Gentianopsis species are annual, biennial or perennial herbaceous plants . The simple leaves are opposite to each other. Usually there is a basal leaf rosette.

Generative characteristics

Most of the time the flowers are terminally single on a plant. The hermaphrodite flowers are four-fold with a double flower envelope . The sepals are fused tubular or bell-shaped, but how far they are fused is different for the species. The petals are fused and are toothed or fringed. The stamens do not protrude from the corolla tube. The stylus is short to absent. The scar is bilobed.

The bilobed capsule fruit contains many seeds.

Gentianopsis crinita flowers

Fourfold flowers of Gentianopsis thermalis

Fourfold flowers of Gentianopsis yabei

Systematics and distribution

The genus Gentianopsis was established in 1951 by Yu Chuan Ma in Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica , Volume 1, Issue 1, pages 7-19, plates 1-4, 5. Synonyms for Gentianopsis Ma are: Crossopetalum Roth , Gentiana sect. Crossopetalae Froelich ex Griseb. , Gentiana subgen. Eublephis Raf. By 1951, these species were in the genre of gentians ( Gentiana classified).

The genus Gentianopsis belongs to the Subertribus Swertiinae from the tribe Gentianeae within the Gentianaceae family .

The genus Gentianopsis includes 16 to 24 species:

Gentianopsis barbata (Froel.) Ma (Syn .: Gentiana barbata Froel. , Gentianella barbata (Froel.) Bercht. & J.Presl ): It is common in China , Japan , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Mongolia and Russia .
Gentianopsis barbellata (Engelm.) Polecat
Common fringed gentian ( Gentianopsis ciliata (L.) Ma )
Gentianopsis crinita (Froel.) Ma (Syn .: Gentiana crinita Froel. ): It iswidespreadin Canada and the USA.
Gentianopsis contorta (Royle) Ma : It occurs in Nepal , Japan , Tibet and in the Chinese provinces of Guizhou , Liaoning , Qinghai , Sichuan and Yunnan .
Gentianopsis detonsa (Rottb.) Ma (Syn .: Gentiana detonsa Rottb. , Gentianella detonsa (Rottb.) G.Don ): It iswidespreadin the northern hemisphere in Canada, the USA and Europe. There are subspecies:
- Gentianopsis detonsa (Rottb.) Ma subsp. detonsa : It occurs in Iceland , Norway , European Russia , Greenland , Alaska and Canada.
- Gentianopsis detonsa subsp. yukonensis (JMGillett) JMGillett : It occurs in Alaska and in the Canadian Yukon .
Gentianopsis doluchanovii (capital) NNTsvelev
Gentianopsis grandis (Harry Smith) Ma : It thrives at altitudes of 2000 to 4100 meters in the Chinese provinces of southwestern Sichuan and northwestern Yunnan.
Gentianopsis holopetala (A. Gray) Iltis (Syn .: Gentiana holopetala (A. Gray) Holm , Gentiana serrata var. Holopetala A.Gray ): It comes in the US states Oregon , California and Nevada before.
Gentianopsis komarovii (capital) H.Toyokuni
Gentianopsis lanceolata (Benth.) Polecat
Gentianopsis lutea (Burkill) Ma (Syn .: Gentiana detonsa Rottbøll var. Lutea Burkill ): This endemic thrives on stony slopes at altitudes of around 2300 meters only in Kunming Shi in Yunnan.
Gentianopsis macounii (Holm) polecat
Gentianopsis macrantha (D.Don ex G.Don) Polecat
Gentianopsis paludosa (Munro ex Hook.) Ma : It is in three varieties in Bhutan , India , Nepal , Sikkim , Tibet and in the Chinese provinces of Gansu , Hebei , western Hubei , Nei Mongol , Ningxia , Qinghai , Shaanxi , Shanxi , and Sichuan as well Yunnan spread.
Gentianopsis simplex (A.Gray) polecat : It occurs in the US states of Oregon, Idaho , Nevada and California.
Gentianopsis stricta (Klotzsch) Ikonn.
Gentianopsis thermalis (Kuntze) Iltis (Syn .: Gentiana elegans A.Nelson , Gentiana thermalis Kuntze , Gentianella detonsa . Subsp elegans J.M.Gillett , Gentianopsis elegans (A.Nelson) Ma , Gentianopsis detonsa var. Elegans (A.Nelson) NHHolmgren ): It occurs in the US states of Colorado , Wyoming , Idaho, Montana , Utah , Nevada and New Mexico .
Gentianopsis victorinii (Fern.) Polecat
Gentianopsis virgata (Raf.) Holub
Gentianopsis yabei (Takeda & Hara) Ma ex Takahashi

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Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Gentianopsis in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ting-nung Ho, James S. Pringle: Gentianaceae. : Gentianopsis , p. 130 - online with the same text as the printed work , In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China , Volume 16 - Gentianaceae through Boraginaceae , Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis, 1995, ISBN 0-915279-33-9 .
^ Manfred A. Fischer, Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. State of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2005, ISBN 3-85474-140-5 .

Web links

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[GRIN-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Gentianopsis in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.

[FoC-2] Ting-nung Ho, James S. Pringle: Gentianaceae. : Gentianopsis , p. 130 - online with the same text as the printed work , In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China , Volume 16 - Gentianaceae through Boraginaceae , Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis, 1995, ISBN 0-915279-33-9 .

[ExFloraÖLS2005-3] Manfred A. Fischer, Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. State of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2005, ISBN 3-85474-140-5 .