Ornithopus

Ornithopus
	True Serradella ( Ornithopus sativus )
Systematics
	Eurosiden I
Order :	Fabales (Fabales)
Family :	Legumes (Fabaceae)
Subfamily :	Butterflies (Faboideae)
Tribe :	Loteae
Genre :	Ornithopus
Scientific name
	Ornithopus
	L.

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Ornithopus , German and bird's-foot or also called Della Serra, is a genus of the tribe loteae in the subfamily of the Pea family (Faboideae) within the family of legumes (Fabaceae).

description

Vegetative characteristics

The Ornithopus species are annual herbaceous plants . The leaves are pinnate unpaired. The stipules are relatively small and linear.

Generative characteristics

The flowers are in axillary umbels , carried by a foliage-like bract . The hermaphrodite flowers are zygomorphic and five-fold with a double flower envelope . The calyx is cylindrical or bell-shaped with five equal teeth. The whitish, pink or yellow petals are arranged in the typical shape of the butterfly flower . The shuttle is blunt. The legumes are round or flattened in cross-section, they are severely nerved and narrowed between their sections: pods that disintegrate into solitary cocci when ripe.

Yellow Serradella ( Ornithopus compressus )

Sweet pea ( Ornithopus perpusillus )

Systematics and distribution

The genus Ornithopus L. includes about six species. Four of them occur in Europe.

Yellow Serradella ( Ornithopus compressus L. ): It is found in southern Europe, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, the Canaries, Madeira and Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran and Georgia and is naturalized in the Azores.
Ornithopus micranthus (Benth.) Arechav. : It occurs in Argentina, Uruguay and the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul .
Mäusewicke ( Ornithopus perpusillus L. ), also called small bird's foot : It occurs in Europe, mainly in Western Europe, on the Canaries and Madeira, in Algeria and is a neophyte in the Azores .
Ornithopus pinnatus (Mill.) Druce : It occurs in southern Europe, in northwest Africa, on the Canaries and Madeira, in Turkey, Syria and Palestine and reaches the British Isles of Scilly to the north.
Real Serradella ( Ornithopus sativus bread. ): The home is Portugal, Spain and southwest France, Morocco and Algeria and is naturalized in the Azores. It is divided into two subspecies:
- Ornithopus sativus subsp. isthmocarpus (Cosson) Dostál
- Ornithopus sativus subsp. sativus
Ornithopus uncinatus Maire & Sam. : It occurs in Morocco.

literature

PW Ball: Ornithopus L. In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 2: Rosaceae to Umbelliferae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1968, ISBN 0-521-06662-X , pp. 182 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ornithopus in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.

Web links

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[GRIN-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ornithopus in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.