Bearded Quail Wheat

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Bearded Quail Wheat
Bearded quail wheat (Melampyrum barbatum) in Burgenland (Austria)

Bearded quail wheat ( Melampyrum barbatum ) in Burgenland (Austria)

Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Summer root family (Orobanchaceae)
Genre : Quail Wheat ( Melampyrum )
Type : Bearded Quail Wheat
Scientific name
Melampyrum barbatum
Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd.

The bearded quail wheat ( Melampyrum barbatum ) is a species of the genus quail wheat ( Melampyrum ) within the family of summer roots (Orobanchaceae).

description

Vegetative characteristics

The bearded quail wheat grows as an annual herbaceous plant and reaches heights of 15 to 35 centimeters. The 6 to 8 pairs of leaves are narrow-lanceolate with a width of 3 to 8 millimeters.

Generative characteristics

The flowering period extends from May to July. The hermaphrodite flowers are zygomorphic with a double flower envelope . The calyx is hairy, woolly and shaggy. The calyx teeth are about as long as the corolla tube and have 2 to 3 millimeters long awns. The monochrome light yellow crown is 20 to 25 millimeters long and has two lips. The lower lip, with a bent edge, is spread apart from the upper lip, making the crown throat open.

Occurrence and endangerment

The rare occurrences are limited to areas south of the Alps and Carpathians . Stocks are known in the countries of the Pannonian Floral Province : Austria (especially in Burgenland ), Hungary , Romania , Albania and Italy . In the Czech Republic , the bearded quail wheat is on the red list and in Austria it is considered endangered. The bearded quail wheat is considered an unstable neophyte in Germany .

Bearded quail wheat thrives in dry grass .

Inflorescence and zygomorphic flowers of Melampyrum barbatum subsp. carstiense

Systematics

Melampyrum barbatum was first published in 1800 by Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein and Pál Kitaibel in Carl Ludwig Willdenow : Species Plantarum. Editio Quarta. Berolini .

From Melampyrum barbatum there are two subspecies:

  • Melampyrum barbatum Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd. subsp. barbatum (Syn .: Melampyrum barbatum . subsp filarszkyanum (Soó) Soó , Melampyrum barbatum subsp. kitaibelii (Soó) Soó ): It comes in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, the former Yugoslavia and in Romania before.
  • Melampyrum barbatum subsp. carstiense Ronniger (Syn .: Melampyrum carstiense (Ronniger) Fritsch , Melampyrum barbatum subsp. tergestinum O.C.Dahl ): It occurs in Austria, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia and Albania.

literature

  • Manfred A. Fischer, Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. State of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2005, ISBN 3-85474-140-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Melampyrum barbatum Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd., Bearded Quail Wheat. In: FloraWeb.de.
  2. ↑ a b c Karol Marhold, 2011: Scrophulariaceae. : Datasheet Melampyrum barbatum - In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity . last accessed on March 14, 2016

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