Muscari vuralii
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Muscari vuralii is a species of grape hyacinth ( Muscari ) in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). It was discovered in 2006 and so far is only known from one site in the Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey.
description
The onion is egg-shaped, about 1 to 1.5 centimeters in diameter and forms daughter onions. The onion skins are blackish brown. There are 2 to 5 leaves . These are linear-lanceolate, 4 to 9 × 0.1 to 0.5 centimeters in size, upright, sickle-shaped, runny and green. You have a divorced reason.
The mostly single shaft is 3 to 7 centimeters long including the inflorescence . It is shorter or as long as the leaves and does not lengthen noticeably as the fruit ripens. The racemose inflorescence is more or less egg-shaped, 0.8 to 1 × 1 to 1.2 centimeters in size and consists of rarely from 6, usually 10 to 15 flowers . The flower stalk is 0.5 to 2 millimeters long and upright during the flowering period. During the ripening of the fruit, it rarely extends from 3, usually 4 to 5 millimeters. The tiny bracts are white and membranous. The fragrant flowers are narrow, bell-shaped and two-colored. The flower tube is pale sky blue, 5 to 6 millimeters tall, at the tip about 3 to 4 millimeters wide and not narrowed. The lobes are pure white, bent back, ovoid and 2.0 to 2.5 millimeters in size. They each have a narrow, dark blue stripe in the middle that also continues on the flower tube. The sterile flowers are pale blue-white. The stamens are 0.5 to 0.6 millimeters long and dark blue or purple. The anthers are dark grayish or blackish purple and up to 1 millimeter long. The ovary is ovate to spherical and about 1.5 millimeters. The stylus are about 1 millimeter long. The capsule is 2.5 to 3, rarely up to 4 millimeters wide and circular, triangular or wing-like.
Occurrence
Muscari vuralii is known from only one site in the central Taurus Mountains in southern Anatolia in the province of Karaman in the Sarıveliler district . The species is an Iran-Turanian floral element. It grows on stony soils in the mountain steppe at an altitude of 1950 meters above sea level. At the place where Muscari vuralii was found , Muscari bourgaei , Ornithogalum lanceolatum , Anemone blanda , Scilla bifolia in the broader sense, Gagea villosa var. Villosa and Fritillaria acmopetala subsp. wendelboi before.
Systematics
Muscari vuralii was first described in 2009 by the Turkish botanists Süleyman Doğu and Yavuz Bağcı . It belongs to the nominotypical subgenus Muscari (Syn .: subgen. Botryanthus ) and is closely related to Muscari coeleste and Muscari macbeathianum . The species was named in honor of the Turkish botanist Mecit Vural .
Danger
The species is not currently included in the IUCN Red List, but it does meet the criteria for being critically endangered.
supporting documents
- Suleyman Doğu, Yavuz Bağcı: Muscari vuralii sp. nov. (Liliaceae / Hyacinthaceae) from South Anatolia, Turkey . In: Nordic Journal of Botany. Volume 27, No. 2, 2009, pp. 243-246, DOI: 10.1111 / j.1756-1051.2009.00427.x .
- ↑ Franz Speta: About the delimitation and structure of the genus Muscari and about its relationship to other representatives of the Hyacinthaceae. In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics and plant geography. Volume 103, No. 2, 1982, pp. 247-291.