Bearded Quail Wheat
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Bearded quail wheat ( Melampyrum barbatum ) in Burgenland (Austria) |
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Melampyrum barbatum | ||||||||||||
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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 .
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
- ↑ a b Melampyrum barbatum Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd., Bearded Quail Wheat. In: FloraWeb.de.
- ↑ 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