Grape sparrows

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Grape sparrows
Neillia ribesioides

Neillia ribesioides

Systematics
Rosids
Eurosiden I
Order : Rose-like (rosales)
Family : Rose family (Rosaceae)
Subfamily : Spiraeoideae
Genre : Grape sparrows
Scientific name
Neillia
D. Don
Inflorescence and leaves of the red grape spear
Inflorescence and leaves of pale grape leaf
Tibetan grape spar

The grape sparrows ( Neillia ) are a genus of plants from the rose family. Their distribution area is in Central, East and Southeast Asia.

description

The grape sparrows are deciduous shrubs or semi-shrubs with thin, protruding-overhanging, back and forth bent branches. The branch tips are mostly dead. The buds are egg-shaped, the edge of the bud scales is finely lashed with whitish, terminal buds are missing. The leaves are alternate and often two-lined. They have large and sloping stipules . The leaf blade is simple, egg-shaped, with a double-serrate edge and usually weakly three-lobed.

The flowers are usually in terminal, sometimes in axillary racemes or panicles . The bracts are small, linear-lanceolate and soon fall off. The flowers are hermaphroditic. The flower cup is cylindrical or bell-shaped to urn-shaped and mainly determines the color and shape of the flower. The five small sepals are erect and are also retained on the fruit. The petals are white or reddish and smaller to about the same length as the sepals. The 10 to 30 stamens and one or two rarely up to five carpels are enclosed in the calyx tube. One or two follicles are completely enclosed in the thin-skinned and hairy calyx tube. One to three, seldom five, smooth and shiny seeds about 2 millimeters long are formed per fruit .

distribution

The distribution area of ​​the approximately 17 species is in Central, East and Southeast Asia from the eastern Himalayas to Korea, Indochina, Sumatra and Java. 15 species are found in China, 12 of which are endemic to China .

Systematics

The neillia ( Neillia ) are a genus of the family of Rosaceae (Rosaceae). There it is assigned to the tribe Neillieae in the subfamily Spiraeoideae. The genus was established by David Don in 1825. The generic name chosen by him Neillia is reminiscent of the Scottish printer and botanist Patrick Neill (1776-1851). Adenilema flower is a synonym of the genus .

The following species are assigned to the genus:

use

Representatives of the genus are used as group and hedge shrubs. In Central Europe they are endangered by frost in severe winters, but usually sprout again.

proof

literature

  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 428.
  • Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 9: Pittosporaceae through Connaraceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2003, ISBN 1-930723-14-8 , pp. 77 (English).
  • Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 , p. 413 (reprint from 1996).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e German name after Roloff et al .: Flora of the woods
  2. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 428
  3. ↑ a b c d e Gu Cuizhi, Crinan Alexander: Neillia in Flora of China. Volume 9, p. 77
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Neillia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  5. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 413
  6. ↑ Neillia. In: The Plant List. Retrieved February 21, 2012 .

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