Trimmed lice herb
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Trimmed lice herb ( Pedicularis recutita ) |
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The Truncated lousewort ( Pedicularis recutita ), also Stutz lousewort called, is a plant of the genus pedicularis ( Pedicularis ) within the family broomrape plants (Orobanchaceae).
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Vegetative characteristics
The trimmed lice herb grows as a perennial herbaceous plant and reaches heights of 20 to 60 centimeters. The above-ground parts of the plant, except for the calyx teeth, are completely bare. The stem is erect. With the pinnately cut leaves , the upper ones are often tinged with purple. The lower leaves have long stalks.
Generative characteristics
The flowering period extends from June to August. Many flowers stand together in an initially dense racemose inflorescence , which later elongates. The bracts are shorter than the flowers; the lower ones are pinnate, the upper three-lobed or undivided. The hermaphrodite flowers are zygomorphic with a double flower envelope . The sepals are hairy. The brown-red to blood-red crown is 15 to 20 millimeters long. It has a straight, beaked upper lip that is much longer than the lower lip.
The capsule fruit is egg-shaped, but with a point and almost twice as long as the calyx.
Chromosome set
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16.
Occurrence
The trimmed lice herb occurs in Europe only in the Alps. There are localities for the countries France , Germany , Austria , Switzerland , Italy and Slovenia . In Austria it occurs scattered except for Vienna and Burgenland .
This lime-loving plant species thrives best in moist lawns , tall perennials and spring fields and green alder bushes ; on clay soils rich in nutrients and bases . It occurs from the upper montane to subalpine altitude range at altitudes of 1000 to 2700 meters. It thrives in Central Europe especially in plant communities of the Caricion-ferrugineae, but also in moist Deschampsia cespitosa communities from the Cardamino-Montion association.
In the Allgäu Alps, it rises in the Tyrolean part on the Gumpensattel near the Rothornspitze to an altitude of 2250 meters.
Taxonomy
The first publication of Pedicularis recutita was in 1753 by Carl von Linné .
literature
- Xaver Finkenzeller, Jürke Grau: Alpine flowers. Recognize and determine (= Steinbach's natural guide ). Mosaik, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-576-11482-3 , p. 213 .
- Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald, Raimund Fischer: Excursion flora of Austria . Ed .: Manfred A. Fischer. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart / Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-8001-3461-6 , p. 733 .
- E. Mayer: Pedicularis L. In: Thomas Gaskell Tutin et al .: Flora Europaea. Volume 3, pages 269-276. Cambridge University Press 1972. ISBN 0-521-08489-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas. 8th edition. Stuttgart, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 . Page 861.
- ↑ Karol Marhold, 2011: Scrophulariaceae : Datasheet Pedicularis recutita In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.
- ↑ Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 2, IHW, Eching 2004, ISBN 3-930167-61-1 , p. 478.
Web links
- Pedicularis recutita L., trimmed lice herb. In: FloraWeb.de.
- Trimmed lice herb . In: BiolFlor, the database of biological-ecological characteristics of the flora of Germany.
- Profile and distribution map for Bavaria . In: Botanical Information Hub of Bavaria .
- Pedicularis recutita L. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora .
- Thomas Meyer: Lice herb data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia ).