Italian adder head

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Italian adder head
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Italian adder head ( Echium italicum )

Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Asterids
Euasterids I
Family : Boraginaceae (Boraginaceae)
Genre : Adderheads ( Echium )
Type : Italian adder head
Scientific name
Echium italicum
L.

The Italian Natternkopf ( Echium italicum ) is a plant type from the type of snake heads ( Echium ) in the family of the Boraginaceae (Boraginaceae).

description

Section of an inflorescence

The Italian adder head is a stiff-haired, upright, biennial plant that develops a single or a dominant flower-bearing stem that is 40 to 100 cm high. The basal leaves are 200 to 350 mm long and 15 to 40 mm wide. Their shape is lanceolate, they are hairy with soft, close-fitting bristles. Stem leaves are more or less narrowly elliptical.

The inflorescence is spike-like or strongly branched in a typical pyramid. The calyx is 6 to 7 mm long at flowering time. The crown is 10 to 12 mm long, very narrow, funnel-shaped and yellowish, pink or bluish white. Four or five stamens protrude from the crown, the stamens are pale.

Occurrence

The species is native to southern and eastern Europe , Austria, Hungary and Slovakia, Libya, Egypt, western Asia and the Caucasus. In Switzerland and Australia the species is a neophyte.

Subspecies

One can distinguish the following subspecies:

  • Echium italicum L. subsp. italicum (Syn .: Echium italicum subsp. albereanum (Naudin & Debeaux) Greuter & Burdet ): It occurs in southern Europe and in the Middle East.
  • Echium italicum subsp. biebersteinii (Lacaita) Greuter & Burdet : It comes in France, in Italy, in Southeast Europe. in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
  • Echium italicum subsp. scaettae (Pamp.) Greuter & Burdet : It only occurs in Libya.
  • Echium italicum subsp. siculum (Lacaita) Greuter & Burdet : It occurs only in Sicily.

literature

  • TG Tutin et al. (Ed.): Flora Europaea, Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae . Cambridge University Press, 1972, ISBN 978-0521084895 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Echium in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Benito Valdés, 2011: Boraginaceae. : Datasheet Echium italicum In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.

Web links

Commons : Italian Adderhead ( Echium italicum )  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Italian adder head. In: FloraWeb.de.