Narthecium
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Yellow bog lily ( Narthecium ossifragum ) |
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Narthecium , in German called Moorlilien , Beinbrech, Ährenrinsen or Ährenlilien, is a genus of plants inthe Nartheciaceae family . The seven or so species have a disjoint area in the northern hemisphere .
description
Vegetative characteristics
Narthecium species grow as perennial herbaceous plants that reach heights of 10 to 50 cm. These geophytes develop creeping rhizomes as persistent organs. The sticky stem is stiff and upright, it continues underground and has a slight tuft of fibers there. The three to six basal leaves are sword-shaped.
Generative characteristics
Are the terminal, loose, on upright, leafy Blütenstandsschäften traubigen inflorescences . The flowers are threefold. The six equally shaped bracts ( tepals ) are largely free and yellow to greenish-yellow. The white stamens are densely hairy, the anthers are linear. Three fruit leaves are a dreikammerigen, Upper permanent ovary grown.
Thin-walled egg-shaped to lanceolate-egg-shaped, three-chamber capsule fruits are formed. The pale yellow, thread-like, ellipsoidal seed is tailed at both ends.
The basic chromosome number is x = 13.
ingredients
They are poisonous due to the saponin narthecin , it is a liver poison .
Systematics and distribution
The genus Narthecium has a strongly disjoint area : with three species in Europe , one species in the Middle East , one species in East Asia and three species in North America .
The genus Narthecium was previously classified in the Melanthiaceae or Liliaceae family. The genus Narthecium was first published in 1762 by William Hudson in Flora Anglica . Type species is Narthecium ossifragum (L.) Huds. A synonym for Narthecium Huds. is Abama Adans. The scientific name is derived from the Greek word narthex for rod, this is due to the shape of the inflorescence.
The following eight species are recognized in the World Checklist of Nartheciaceae (Kew):
- Narthecium americanum Ker Gawl. (Syn .: Abama americana (Ker-Gawl.) Morong , Abama montana Small , Narthecium ossifragum var. Americanum (Ker-Gawl.) A. Gray ): It occurs on the east coast of North America.
- Narthecium asiaticum Maxim. : It occurs in northern and central Japan .
- Narthecium balansae Briq. : It occurs in northeastern Turkey and western Caucasus .
- Narthecium californicum Baker : It occurs in Oregon and California.
- Narthecium montanum (Small) Gray : It is only found in North Carolina .
- Bog lily , leg breaker, yellow bog lily, bog ear lily ( Narthecium ossifragum ( L. ) Huds. , Syn .: Anthericum ossifragum L. ): It occurs in northern and western Europe from Sweden to Portugal.
- Narthecium reverchonii Čelak. : The home is Corsica .
- Narthecium scardicum Kosanin : It comes from the north-eastern Albania to northwestern Greece before.
swell
- Frederick H. Utech: Narthecium. In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico . Volume 26: Magnoliophyta: Liliidae: Liliales and Orchidales . Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford a. a. 2002, ISBN 0-19-515208-5 , pp. 66 (English, online at efloras.org ). (Sections Description and Systematics)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Narthecium. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved June 23, 2018.
- ^ William Hudson: Flora Anglica. Self-published, London 1762, p. 127 ( preview in Google book search).
