Dinaric gentian

Dinaric gentian
	Dinaric gentian ( Gentiana dinarica )
Systematics
	Asterids
	Euasterids I
Order :	Enzianartige (Gentianales)
Family :	Gentian Family (Gentianaceae)
Genre :	Gentians ( Gentiana )
Type :	Dinaric gentian
Scientific name
	Gentiana dinarica
	Beck

The Dinarische gentian ( Gentiana Dinarica ) is a plant from the genus of gentians ( Gentiana ) in the family of Gentianaceae (Gentianaceae).

description

Habitus in the Botanical Garden Vienna

Vegetative characteristics

Gentiana dinarica is a perennial herbaceous plant . The opposite leaves are crowded at the base of the stem . The simple leaf blade is broadly elliptical. The leaf margins are cartilaginous.

Generative characteristics

The flowers are individually terminal on the stems. The hermaphrodite flowers are radially symmetrical with a double flower envelope . The five green sepals are fused to about half their length. The five calyx teeth are narrowly lanceolate and narrowed towards the base. The dark blue crown is 40 to 70 millimeters in length and is inverted-conical. There are no green dots in the crown throat, the crown lobes are pointed.

Occurrence

Gentiana dinarica is found in the mountains in the southwest of the former Yugoslavia , in Albania and in central Italy . She loves lime.

Individual evidence

↑ Gentianaceae / Gentiana dinarica - Dinaric gentian - data sheet with photos at Botanik im Bild , 2007-02-20.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Thomas Gaskell Tutin : Gentiana. In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-08489-X , pp. 62 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Dinaric gentian ( Gentiana dinarica ) - collection of images, videos and audio files

[NHM-1] Gentianaceae / Gentiana dinarica - Dinaric gentian - data sheet with photos at Botanik im Bild , 2007-02-20.

[Tutin1972-2] Thomas Gaskell Tutin : Gentiana. In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-08489-X , pp. 62 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).