Fritillaria mughlae
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Fritillaria mughlae is a species of plant in the genus Fritillaria in the lily family (Liliaceae).
description
The bulbs are spherical and measure 0.8 to 1.2 × 0.8 to 1.7 centimeters. The onion skin is thin and paper-like. The stem is erect, smooth, and 7 to 25 inches high. The five to twelve leaves are sessile, alternate and frosted green. The lowest leaves measure 4.5 to 12.3 × 0.5 to 0.8 centimeters and are linear-lanceolate to pointed. The middle leaves measure 3.2 to 12.5 × 0.2 to 0.7 centimeters and, like the only bract, which has a size of 2.8 to 9.2 × 0.1 to 0.4 centimeters, are linear and pointed.
There are one or two flowers . The inflorescence is narrow, bell-shaped. The tepals are greenish-yellow in color, when they fade they become brown with veins. The outer tepals measure 14 to 20 × 5 to 6 millimeters and are blunt with a tuft of eyelashes on the tip, the inner ones are similar, but only 4 to 5 millimeters wide. The nectaries are located at the base of the flower cover, measure 3 to 4 × 1 millimeters and are lanceolate and greenish-yellow. The stamens are 6.5 to 8 millimeters long, yellow, papilose and widen towards the base. The anthers are 3.5 to 5 millimeters long, oblong-elliptical, yellow and attached to the base. The stylus are 6 to 8 millimeters long and three columns, the branches are 1 to 3 millimeters long and papilous. The scar is whole. The capsule fruits measure 18 to 21 × 10 to 13 millimeters and are obverse-lanceolate and wingless. The seeds measure 3.5 to 6 × 3.5 to 5 millimeters and are flat and egg-shaped. The seed coat is light brown and has a honeycomb-like net pattern.
The flowering time is in February and March.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 24. Two pairs of chromosomes are more or less symmetrical, ten are asymmetrical. Of the former, one pair is metacentric and one submetacentric, of the latter six subtelocentric and four telocentric.
Occurrence
So far, Fritillaria mughlae is only known from the Datça and Marmaris counties in the Muğla Province in southwestern Turkey . The species is an east Mediterranean floral element. It grows on rocky slopes on serpentine , in clearings in pine forests and in Kermes oak bushes at altitudes of 70 to 350 meters.
Systematics
Fritillaria mughlae was first described in 2008 by the Turkish botanists Mehtap Tekşen and Zeki Aytaç . The species is named after the Turkish province of Muğla. Previous collections in the same area were not separated from the similar Fritillaria forbesii .
supporting documents
- Mehtap Tekşen, Zeki Aytaç: Fritillaria mughlae (Liliaceae), a New Species from Turkey . In: Annales Botanici Fennici. Volume 45, No. 2, 2008, pp. 141-147, 2008, doi: 10.5735 / 085.045.0209 , PDF file .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edward Martin Rix: Fritillaria. In: Peter Hadland Davis (Ed.): Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Vol. 8 (Butomaceae to Typhaceae) . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1984, ISBN 0-85224-494-0 , pp. 296 .
- ^ Annette Carlström: A survey of the flora and phytogeography of Rodhos, Simi, Tilos and the Marmaris Peninsula (SE Greece, SW Turkey). Dissertation, Lund University 1987, pp. 120, 262.
Web links
- Mehtap Tekşen: Pictures of Fritillaria mughlae .