Colorful lice herb

Colorful lice herb
	Colorful lice herb ( Pedicularis oederi )
Systematics
	Asterids
	Euasterids I
Order :	Mint family (Lamiales)
Family :	Summer root family (Orobanchaceae)
Genre :	Lice herbs ( Pedicularis )
Type :	Colorful lice herb
Scientific name
	Pedicularis oederi
	Vahl ex Jens Wilken Hornemann

The Bunte lousewort ( Pedicularis oederi ) is a species in the genus lousewort ( Pedicularis ) in the family of broomrape plants (Orobanchaceae). It is widespread in the northern hemisphere in Eurasia and North America .

description

Illustration from Atlas of the Alpine Flora , Plate 373

Habitus and inflorescences in the habitat

Vegetative characteristics

Pedicularis oederi grows as a perennial herbaceous plant and reaches heights of 5 to 15 centimeters. The stem is angular. The leaves are pinnate, with serrated leaflets.

Generative characteristics

The flowering period extends from June to August. The flowers stand together in short, terminal racemose inflorescences .

The hermaphrodite flowers are zygomorphic with a double flower envelope . The crown is 20 to 25 millimeters long, yellow, the upper lip is brown-red in front, without a beak.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16.

Occurrence

Pedicularis oederi subsp. In Central Europe, oederi thrives best on fresh, loamy, more or less basic grasslands , especially on amphibolite , limestone slate , marble or dolomite . It is a character species of the Caricetum firmae from the Seslerion association, but also occurs in other plant communities of the order Seslerietalia albicantis.

Pedicularis oederi subsp. oederi is an arctic-alpine, Asian and North American floral element . In Austria Pedicularis oederi subsp. oederi is rare and only occurs in the Central Alps (Styria, North Tyrol, Vorarlberg). It also grows in Liechtenstein , in South Tyrol (on the Alpe di Siusi ) and in Switzerland (on Mount Pilatus, for example ).

Systematics and distribution

The first description of Pedicularis oederi was made in 1806 by Martin Vahl in Jens Wilken Hornemann : Forsøg til en Dansk Oeconomisk Plantelaere , 2nd edition, pages 580-581. The Artepipheton oederi honors the botanist and doctor Georg Christian Oeder .

From Pedicularis oederi there are two subspecies:

Pedicularis oederi Vahl ex Hornem. subsp. oederi : It is widespread in Europe , North America , Bhutan , Japan , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan , Russia , Mongolia , Tibet and China .
Pedicularis oederi subsp. multipinna (HLLi) PCTsoong : It thrives on grassy slopes at altitudes of around 4200 meters only in western Sichuan .

literature

Xaver Finkenzeller, Jürke Grau: Alpine flowers. Recognize and determine (= Steinbach's natural guide ). Mosaik, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-576-11482-3 .
Manfred A. Fischer, Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. State of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2005, ISBN 3-85474-140-5 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , pp. 861 .
↑ Pedicularis oederi at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed January 13, 2019.
^ ^A ^b Yang Han-bi, Noel H. Holmgren, Robert R. Mill: Pedicularis oederi Vahl ex Hornemann. , P. 195 - online with the same text as the printed work , In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (ed.): Flora of China. Volume 18: Scrophulariaceae. Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis 2010.

Web links

Commons : Colorful lice herb ( Pedicularis oederi ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Pedicularis oederi Vahl, variegated lice herb. In: FloraWeb.de.
Colorful lice herb . In: BiolFlor, the database of biological-ecological characteristics of the flora of Germany.
Profile and distribution map for Bavaria . In: Botanical Information Hub of Bavaria .
Pedicularis oederi Hornem. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved March 21, 2016.
Distribution in the northern hemisphere according to Eric Hultén .
Thomas Meyer: Lice herb data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia ).

[Oberdorfer2001-1] Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , pp. 861 .

[Tropicos-2] Pedicularis oederi at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed January 13, 2019.

[FoC-3] A ^b Yang Han-bi, Noel H. Holmgren, Robert R. Mill: Pedicularis oederi Vahl ex Hornemann. , P. 195 - online with the same text as the printed work , In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (ed.): Flora of China. Volume 18: Scrophulariaceae. Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis 2010.