Eastern Alps-Meier

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Eastern Alps-Meier
Systematics
Subfamily : Rubioideae
Tribe : Rubieae
Sub tribus : Rubiinae
Genre : Meier ( Asperula )
Section : Cynanchicae
Type : Eastern Alps-Meier
Scientific name
Asperula neilreichii
Beck

The eastern Alps-Meier ( Asperula neilreichii ) is a rare plant from the family of the redness plants (Rubiaceae).

features

The Ostalpen-Meier grows as a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches heights of up to 15 centimeters and forms dense, cushion-shaped lawns. In contrast to the Hügel-Meier, the stem is inflexible. According to the Adler / Oswald / Fischer identification key, the lower, back-curved, obovate stem leaves are also preserved in the flowering period, while in the closely related Hügel-Meier they withered. The middle and upper stem leaves are no shorter than the limbs and sometimes rather longer. The crown of the closely spaced flowers is pink and smooth on the outside. The fruits are barely warty.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 20.

Occurrence

The distribution area of ​​the Ostalpen-Meier ranges from the north-eastern Alps to the western Carpathians . It occurs as a nunatak relict, for example, in the Chiemgau Alps and the Ammergau Alps at altitudes between 1630 and 2050 meters. The Ostalpen-Meier can be found especially on alpine and subalpine scree- plant communities .

The Ostalpen-Meier prefers the Wetterstein limestone in the Chiemgau Alps and the main dolomite on the Geigelstein . It thrives on "limestone black earth ", so-called rendzinen . In Austria , the Ostalpen-Meier can be found in the federal states of Lower Austria , Upper Austria , northern Styria and possibly also in Salzburg .

The species was discovered by Frankl in 1988 in the Tyrolean part of the Allgäu Alps on the Hundsarschscharte on the Schlicke at 1750–1850 m above sea level in upholstery made by Carex company .

History of exploration

Otto Sendtner was probably the first to find the Ostalpen-Meier at Geigelstein in 1850, but assigned him to the Hügel-Meier . He specified the distribution area “ Alps at the height of 5514 Parisian feet ”. It was first described in 1859 by the Viennese botanist and lawyer August Neilreich in his book Flora von Niederösterreich , but as a variety of Hügel-Meier from Asperula cynanchica var. Alpina . Neilreich found this plant species at that time “ in the suction trench of the Schneeberg , on the Schütt of the Griesleiten in the Prein, here frequently. “In 1883 the Viennese botanist Günther Beck recognized the Ostalpen-Meier as a separate species and named it Asperula neilreichii because the epithet alpina was already assigned to another Asperula species .

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald, Raimund Fischer: Excursion flora from Austria . Ed .: Manfred A. Fischer. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart / Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-8001-3461-6 , p. 672 .
  2. Asperula neilreichii , chromosome number at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
  3. ^ Gustav Hegi: Illustrated Flora of Central Europe Volume VI: Dicotyledones, I. half. (Scrophulariaceae - Compositae (Anthemis)). Munich: JF Lehmanns-Verlag, 1918, p. 205
  4. ^ Manfred A. Fischer, Karl Oswald, Wolfgang Adler: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol . 3rd, improved edition. Province of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2008, ISBN 978-3-85474-187-9 , p. 715 .
  5. Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 2, IHW, Eching 2004, ISBN 3-930167-61-1 , p. 502.
  6. Otto Sendtner: The vegetation conditions of southern Bavaria according to the basics of plant geography , Literarisch-Artistische Anstalt, Munich 1854, p. 786 (online).
  7. August Neilreich: Flora von Nieder-Oesterreich , C. Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1859, p. 464 ( preview in Google book search)
  8. ^ Günther Beck: New Plants Oesterreichs. In: Negotiations of the Imperial-Royal Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna 32: p. 182 (PDF; 1.8 MB).

literature

  • Hans W. Smettan: The Ostalpen-Meier ( Asperula neilreichii Beck) in the Bavarian Alps. In: Yearbook of the Association for the Protection of the Mountain World, 60, 1995: pp. 152–162.

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