Narrow-leaved stone linden
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Narrow-leaved stone linden ( Phillyrea angustifolia ) |
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The narrow-leaved stone linden ( Phillyrea angustifolia ) is a shrub belonging to the olive family . The distribution area is in Europe and North Africa, in the Crimea it was naturalized.
description
The narrow-leaved stone linden is an evergreen shrub up to 3 meters high with bare shoots. The leaves are opposite. The leaf blade is 3 to 8 centimeters long and a maximum of 1.5 centimeters wide, oblong to linear-lanceolate, pointed with a wedge-shaped base, with entire margins or rarely with teeth and leathery. The upper side of the leaf is olive green, the underside glabrous and yellowish green. Four to six indistinct nerve pairs at a narrow angle to the midrib are formed per leaf. The fragrant flowers are arranged in small, axillary racemes. The calyx is thick, brownish, has four rounded tips and is cut to about a quarter of the length. The sulfur yellow crown is about 2 millimeters long and four-lobed. The fruits are spherical, 6 to 8 millimeters large, when ripe blue-black drupes with persistent stylus . The species blooms from March to May, the fruits ripen from September to October.
Distribution and location
The natural range of the narrow-leaved stone linden is in North Africa in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia and in Europe in Italy, France, Portugal and Spain. The species is naturalized in the Crimea. It is a character species of the maquis and also grows in light forests on moderately dry to fresh, slightly acidic to alkaline, loamy or sandy-loamy, often calcareous, nutrient-rich soils in light to partially shaded locations. The species loves warmth and is only moderately frost hardy.
Systematics
The narrow-stone Linde ( Phillyrea angustifolia ) is one of two species of the genus of stone Linden ( Phillyrea ) in the family of Oleaceae (Oleaceae), tribe Oleeae. Carl von Linné scientifically described the species in 1753 . Synonyms of the species are Olea angustifolia L. and Phillyrea rosmarinifolia Mill. R. Govaerts lists about 60 synonyms for the species.
use
The species is rarely used economically.
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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 , pp. 451-452.
- Peter Schütt , Schuck, Stimm: Lexicon of tree and shrub species . Nikol, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-53-8 , pp. 334 .
- Ingrid Schönfelder, Peter Schönfelder : The cosmos Mediterranean flora . 3. Edition. Franckh, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07803-5 , pp. 178-179 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora of the woods and Schütt, Schuck, Stimm: Lexikon der Baum- und Straucharten
- ↑ a b Schütt et al .: Lexicon of Tree and Shrub Species , p. 334
- ↑ a b c Roloff et al .: Flora of the Woods , pp. 451–452
- ↑ Schönfelder, Schönfelder: Die Kosmos-Mediterraneanflora , p. 178
- ↑ a b Phillyrea angustifolia. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed February 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Phillyrea angustifolia. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved May 6, 2020.
