Leycesteria

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Leycesteria
Leycesteria (Leycesteria formosa)

Leycesteria ( Leycesteria formosa )

Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Asterids
Euasterids II
Order : Cardigans (Dipsacales)
Family : Honeysuckle Family (Caprifoliaceae)
Genre : Leycesteria
Scientific name
Leycesteria
Wall.

Leycesteria is a genus of plants in the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae). The generic name honors the British lawyer William Leycester (1775-1831).

description

Illustration of Leycesteria formosa
Leycesteria crocothyrsos
Fruits and leaves of Leycesteria formosa

Vegetative characteristics

Leycesteria species are deciduous shrubs that reach heights of 1 to 2.50 meters.

The opposite arranged leaves are divided into a petiole and a leaf blade. The leaf blades are simple and ovate to lanceolate with a length of 5 to 20 centimeters with a pointed upper end. The underside of the leaf is light green. The leaf margin is smooth or irregular, finely serrated. There may be stipules .

Generative characteristics

In drooping inflorescences , several flowers sit together in whorls, between large, colored bracts .

The tubular or trumpet-shaped flowers are five-fold with a double flower envelope . The five unequal sepals are fused Roehrig. The five flower petals are fused funnel. There is only a circle with five stamens with short stamens . Five carpels have become an ovary grown. The scar is heady.

They make soft berries that contain many tiny seeds.

Types and distribution

The distribution area of ​​the Leycesteria species extends from the northwestern Himalayas to southwestern China (four species).

There are about five species in the genus Leycesteria :

  • Leycesteria crocothyrsos Airy Shaw : It is distributed in southeastern Xizang, northeastern India and in northern Myanmar.
  • Beautiful Leycesteria ( Leycesteria formosa Wall. , Syn .: Leycesteria sinensis Hemsl. , Leycesteria limprichtii H. Winkler ): It is widespread in western Guizhou, western Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Kashmir, Nepal and Myanmar. It is cultivated in many areas and is a neophyte in many tropical countries.
  • Leycesteria glaucophylla (Hook. F. & Thomson) Hook. f. (Syn .: Leycesteria thibetica H.J.Wang ): It is distributed in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and in southeastern Tibet .
  • Leycesteria gracilis (short) Airy Shaw : It is common in Yunnan, Tibet, Bhutan, India, Myanmar and Nepal.
  • Leycesteria stipulata (Hook. F. & Thomson) Fritsch : It is common in Yunnan, Bhutan, India and Myanmar.

swell

  • Qiner Yang, Sven Landrein, Joanna Osborne, Renata Borosova: Caprifoliaceae. : Leycesteria , p. 618 , In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China. Volume 19: Cucurbitaceae through Valerianaceae, with Annonaceae and Berberidaceae , Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis 2011, ISBN 978-1-935641-04-9 . (Sections Systematics and Distribution)
  • Rubina Akhter: Leycesteria in the Flora of Pakistan : Online.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-946292-10-4 . doi : 10.3372 / epolist2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Qiner Yang, Sven Landrein, Joanna Osborne, Renata Borosova: Caprifoliaceae. : Leycesteria , p. 618 , In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China. Volume 19: Cucurbitaceae through Valerianaceae, with Annonaceae and Berberidaceae , Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis 2011, ISBN 978-1-935641-04-9 .
  3. ↑ German name after Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 369.

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