Yellow stone seed
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Yellow stone seed ( Neatostema apulum ) |
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The yellow stone seed ( Neatostema apulum ) is the only kind of the plant genus Neatostema in the family of the predatory plants (Boraginaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
The yellow stone seed is a relatively small, annual herbaceous plant and reaches heights of 3 to 30 centimeters. The stem is stiff upright. Of the numerous leaves, the lower ones run down into the stem, the upper ones seated. The simple leaf blades are narrow-spatulate to eilanzettlich and hairy protruding with long bristles.
Generative characteristics
The almost sessile flowers are densely arranged in coils with leaves to the tip . The hermaphroditic flowers have a double flower envelope . The chalice is bristly. The relatively short corolla with a length of about 6 millimeters is yellow and has a bearded throat and a five-lobed, hairy and short hem.
The flowering period is between March and June. The Klausen are beaked short, warty and light brown.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 28.
Occurrence
The yellow stone seed comes from the Canary Islands , Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia , Portugal , Spain , the Balearic Islands , Corsica , Sardinia , Sicily , Malta , France , Italy , Croatia , Serbia , Albania , Greece , Crete , Cyprus , on islands in the Aegean Sea, Turkey , Iraq , Bulgaria , Moldova and southern Ukraine . It thrives on stony grass fields and in the garigue .
Taxonomy
The first publication was in 1753 by Carl von Linné under the name ( Basionym ) Myosotis apula in Species Plantarum , page 131. The new combination to Neatostema apulum (L.) IMJohnst. was published in 1953 by Ivan Murray Johnston in Journal of the Arnold Arboretum , Volume 34, Page 6, who classified it in the genus Neatostema newly established by him . Other synonyms for Neatostema apulum (L.) IMJohnst. are: Myosotis apula L. , Lithospermum apulum (L.) Vahl , Rhytispermum apulum (L.) Rchb.f. , Lithospermum luteum P.Candargy , Lithospermum strigosum M.Bieb. , Myosotis lutea Lam.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Peter Schönfelder , Ingrid Schönfelder: The new cosmos Mediterranean flora. Franckh-Kosmos-Verlag Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-440-10742-3 , p. 142.
- ↑ Neatostema apulum at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ a b Benito Valdés, 2011: Boraginaceae. : Datasheet Neatostema apulum In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity .
- ↑ Neatostema apulum at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed July 24, 2020.
Web links
- Neatostema (stone seeds) on mediterranmeerflora.de.
- Neatostema apulum from Electronic Flora of South Australia.