Black fruited wire bush

Black fruited wire bush
Black fruited wire bush ( Muehlenbeckia axillaris )
Systematics
Eudicotyledons Nuclear eudicotyledons Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales) Family : Knotweed family (Polygonaceae) Genre : Wire bushes ( Muehlenbeckia ) Type : Black fruited wire bush
Scientific name
Muehlenbeckia axillaris
( Hook.f. ) Walp.

The black-fruited wire bush ( Muehlenbeckia axillaris ) is a species of wire bush . It is assigned to the subfamily Polygonoideae in the knotweed family (Polygonaceae).

description

The black-fruited wire shrub is a deciduous, creeping, mat-like growing dwarf shrub with wire-like, thin, finely gray haired, gold-colored to black branches. The leaves are ovate to round, 5 to 10 millimeters long and have a stalk about 3 millimeters long. The upper side of the leaf is dark green, the underside gray-green.

Black fruited wire bush ( Muehlenbeckia axillaris )

The flowers are yellowish green and stand alone or in pairs in the leaf axils. The species blooms from May to June.

The fruits are black and shiny.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 20.

distribution

The species is found in New Zealand in cool, moist forests on well-drained, fresh to moist, moderately nutrient-rich, sandy or gritty-humic, acidic to neutral soils . However, she avoids calcareous soils. The species prefers sunny locations, it loves warmth and is only moderately frost hardy.

Taxonomy

The black fruit wire bush was first described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1847 as Polygonum axillare . It was named Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook. F.) Walp by Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers in 1849 . into the genus Muehlenbeckia Meisn. posed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Muehlenbeckia. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 19, 2010 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} 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 , p. 425.
3. ↑ Muehlenbeckia axillaris at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

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