Salvia dominica

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Salvia dominica
Salvia dominica

Salvia dominica

Systematics
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Mint family (Lamiaceae)
Subfamily : Nepetoideae
Genre : Sage ( salvia )
Type : Salvia dominica
Scientific name
Salvia dominica
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Salvia dominica is a vegetable art from the genus sage ( Salvia ) in the family of Labiatae (Lamiaceae). The aromatic subshrub is rarely used as an ornamental plant and isonly partially hardyin Central Europe .

description

Salvia dominica is an aromatic, heavily branched subshrub that reaches a height of 1 m. The plant is almost evergreen in the subtropical climate . All above-ground parts of the plant are hairy whitish, especially the inflorescences. The cross- opposite, short-stalked, simple leaves are oblong, egg-shaped to triangular with a truncated leaf base, about 5 cm long and serrated or serrated on the edge. The wrinkled leaf surface is more or less wavy, mostly hairy white and felt and therefore gray-green in color. The upright, branched stems have many white, yellowish overflowing flowers at their ends, often with brown markings on the lower lip. The flowering time at the natural site is from February to May. The sticky sepals enlarge as the fruit ripens . The Klausen fruits are hairless, elliptical to spherical.

ecology

Xylocopa iris pollinating a Salvia dominica flower

In terms of flower ecology, Salvia dominica has male "real lip flowers" that offer nectar . Pollinators are mainly real bees such as mace-horn bees , long- horn bees and wood bees as well as mortar and leaf-cutter bees such as the black mortar bee .

Occurrence

Salvia dominica is widespread in Western Asia in Cyprus , Israel , Jordan , Syria , Lebanon and on the Arabian Peninsula in a summer-dry to semi-arid climate, in some areas it is stock-forming and often found with Ballota undulata from the genus of the black nettle . The species colonizes sunny, rather poor locations in the Mediterranean shrub landscapes and semi-steppe bushes on calcareous soils.

use

Despite its aromatic scent and tolerance to drought, Salvia dominica is rarely used as an ornamental plant. It can for example be planted in stone plants and rocky steppes with dry soil and goes well with rosemary and graublättrigen Catnip . The plant is considered to be conditionally hardy down to −11 ° C ( zone 8 ).

In 2009 a group of Italian and Jordanian researchers isolated twenty-four previously unknown sesterterpenes from the above-ground parts of Salvia dominica , most of which have pharmacological properties. They inhibit certain enzymes that are particularly active in cancer cells and can therefore have a cytotoxic effect on cancer cells . This property is of interest for new therapeutic strategies in the fight against cancer.

Systematics

The first publication of Salvia dominica was made in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum , 25. He assumed incorrectly that the plant to the West Indies is located and named it Dominica after the former Spanish province of Santo Domingo . In 1804, Linné's pupil Martin Vahl described the species again and named it Salvia graveolens . The species-specific part of the name graveolens (“strongly scented”) would certainly be more appropriate than dominica , but the name given by Linné is binding according to the formal rules of the first description .

literature

  • Betsy Clebsch: The New Book of Salvias. Timber Press (Portland) 2003, ISBN 0-88192-560-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Betsy Clebsch: The New Book of Salvias. Timber Press (Poertland, Cambridge) 2003, ISBN 0-88192-560-8 , p. 111.
  2. ^ Gordon Cheers (Ed.): Botanica. The ABC of plants. 10,000 species in text and images. Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-0868-6 , p. 813.
  3. Jump up ↑ Fabrizio Dal Piaz, Antonio Vassallo, Laura Lepore, Alessandra Tosco, Ammar Bader, Nunziatina De Tommasi: Sesterterpenes as Tubulin Tyrosine Ligase Inhibitors. First Insight of Structure-Activity Relationships and Discovery of New Lead. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2009, 52 (12), 3814-3828. (pubs.acs.org)
  4. ↑ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1:25.
  5. ^ Vahl, Martin. 1804. Enumeratio plantarum 1: 273.

Web links

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