Shiny meadow bedstraw

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Shiny meadow bedstraw
Shiny meadow bedstraw (Galium lucidum) on the Fernpass in Tyrol

Shiny meadow bedstraw ( Galium lucidum ) on the Fernpass in Tyrol

Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Enzianartige (Gentianales)
Family : Red family (Rubiaceae)
Genre : Bedstraws ( Galium )
Type : Shiny meadow bedstraw
Scientific name
Galium lucidum
Alles.

The Shining Meadow lab herb ( Galium lucidum ), also gloss bedstraw called, is a species of the genus Galium ( Galium ) within the family of the redness plants (Rubiaceae).

description

Vegetative characteristics

The Shining Meadow bedstraw is a perennial , herbaceous plant and reaches stature heights of 25 to 70 centimeters. It forms long runners . The stems are ascending or erect. The branching starts above the middle. The stems are green, thin and tender. They are square, bald or have short hairs. Downward spiked bristles are missing.

The leaves are four to ten together in whorls . The leaves are linear with a length of up to 30 millimeters and a width of 0.5 to 2 millimeters and einaderig aderig or indistinct. The edge of the leaf is rolled up and is rough due to the small spines pointing forward. The end is narrowed into a short spiked tip. The upper side of the leaf is glossy and not blue-green.

Generative characteristics

The flowers are in dense inflorescences. The flower stalks are not hairy and with a length of 2 to 4 millimeters they are shorter than the flowers; they are at an acute angle to the axis of their partial fluorescence. The white crown is 3 to 5 millimeters in diameter. A clear tube is missing. The petals have a fine, attached spike tip.

The smooth and dark brown fruits disintegrate into two egg-shaped partial fruits.

There is tetraploidy with a chromosome number of 2n = 44.

Distribution and locations

Shiny meadow bedstraw is native to the Mediterranean and Central Europe. It grows in light deciduous forests, in shrubbery and on dry meadows . It mostly occurs on moderately dry, calcareous and loose soils . It rises to the montane altitudinal zone . It occurs in Central Europe in the heat-loving Betulo-Quercetum petraeae, also in societies of the Erico-Pinion or Calamagrostion.

In the Allgäu Alps , it rises in the Tyrolean Lech Valley between Holzgau and Jöchelspitze to an altitude of 1400 meters.

Subspecies

One can distinguish the following subspecies:

  • Galium lucidum subsp. corrudifolium (Vill.) Bonnier (Syn .: Galium corrudifolium Vill. ): It occurs in southwestern Europe and in southern Central Europe.
  • Galium lucidum subsp. fruticescens (Cav.) O. Bolòs & Vigo (Syn .: Galium fruticescens Cav. ): It occurs in central, northern and eastern Spain.
  • Galium lucidum subsp. krendlii Natali : It occurs in Corsica.
  • Galium lucidum subsp. lucidum: It occurs in southern Europe, southern central Europe and northwest Africa.
  • Galium lucidum subsp. venustum (Jord.) Arcang. : It occurs in Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica.

literature

  • Manfred A. Fischer, Karl Oswald, Wolfgang Adler: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol . 3rd, improved edition. State of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2008, ISBN 978-3-85474-187-9 .
  • Siegmund Seybold (Ed.): Schmeil-Fitschen interactive . CD-ROM, version 1.1. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , pp. 766 .
  2. ↑ Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 2. IHW, Eching 2004, ISBN 3-930167-61-1 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Galium lucidum - data sheet at World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on November 30, 2019.

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