Muscari babachii
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Muscari babachii is a species of grape hyacinth ( Muscari ) in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae).
description
The onion is 2 to 4 centimeters in diameter and egg-shaped. The outer onion skins are brown and papery. The middle onion skins are cream colored with pinkish brown or black spots and membranous, the inner ones are membranous and transparent. There are 3 to 5, usually 4 leaves . These measure 18 to 50 × 3 to 13 millimeters and are linear-lanceolate, runny and have a blunt or almost blunt tip.
The shaft measures 35 to 70 centimeters and is longer than the leaves. The inflorescence is a loose, cylindrical raceme that is 8 to 30 × 1 to 4 centimeters in size and consists of 40 to 100 flowers. The stalks of the fertile flowers are spread out horizontally, 1 to 6 millimeters long, shorter than the inflorescence and elongate very slightly to 9 millimeters when the fruit is ripening. The buds of the fertile flowers are ivory in color. At flowering time, they are narrow, oblong, inverted cone-shaped and measure 4 to 13 × 2 to 4 millimeters. They are ivory green towards the top and reddish brown at the base. The shoulders are sharp and ivory in color. The lobes are bent back, black and 0.5 millimeters long. The outer stamens are 1.5 millimeters long, the inner 1 millimeter. The anthers are 1 to 2 millimeters long and purple-black. The pollen is yellow. The ovary is 3 to 5 millimeters long and ovoid. The styles are 3 to 6 millimeters long and the scars are spotted. The stalks of the sterile flowers are ice blue, ascending to horizontal and 3 to 6 millimeters long. The sterile flowers are narrowly tubular, 3 to 7 millimeters long, ice-blue to pinkish white, with brownish-black lobes at the top. The capsules are 6 to 11 × 6 to 10 millimeters in size, broadly ovate to circular, and blunt or have marginal edges. The fruit flaps are not compressed too much. Each capsule contains 4 to 6 seeds. These are 2 to 3 millimeters wide, egg-shaped, rounded or irregularly shaped, wrinkled and black.
The species blooms and produces fruit from May to July.
Occurrence
Muscari babachii is only known from one site from the Amanus Mountains in the southern Turkish province of Hatay at the northern end of the Levant . The species is a Mediterranean floral element. It grows in maquis , under oaks and on rocky places at an altitude of about 1750 to 1800 m above sea level.
Systematics
Muscari babachii was first described in 2008 by Ismail Eker and Mehmet Koyuncu. It belongs to the subgenus Leopoldia and is closely related to Muscari tenuiflorum . The species was named in honor of the Turkish botanist Mehmet Tekin Babaç .
Danger
The species is not currently included in the IUCN Red List, but it does meet the criteria for being critically endangered.
literature
- Ismail Eker, Mehmet Koyuncu: Muscari babachii sp. nov. (Hyacinthaceae) from South Anatolia. In: Nordic Journal of Botany. Volume 26, No. 1, 2008, pp. 49-52, DOI: 10.1111 / j.1756-1051.2008.00299.x .
Web links
- Photos of Muscari babachii on Turkiye Bitkileri - Plants of Turkey (Turkish)