Beach Levkoye

Beach Levkoye
	Beach levkoye ( Matthiola sinuata )
Systematics
	Eurosiden II
Order :	Cruciferous (Brassicales)
Family :	Cruciferous vegetables (Brassicaceae)
Tribe :	Anchonieae
Genre :	Levkojen ( Matthiola )
Type :	Beach Levkoye
Scientific name
	Matthiola sinuata
	( L. ) WTAiton

The beach levkoje ( Matthiola sinuata ) is a species of the genus Levkojen ( Matthiola ) within the cruciferous family (Brassicaceae).

description

Inflorescence with young pods

The beach levkoje is a biennial or perennial plant that reaches heights of 10 to 60 centimeters. It is densely white woolly and tomentose, the obscure-lanceolate to narrow-elliptical or elongated, often more or less folded basal leaves are distant, roughly toothed to pinnately fissured with rounded to rounded-pointed lobes, teeth. The upper stem leaves are undivided. The petals are pale purple to purple and 18–28 millimeters long; the lateral sepals are sagging at the base. The linear and felty pod is upright and protruding, slightly compressed, 5–15 centimeters long and already occupied with conspicuous stalked, yellow or black glands when young. There are minimal or no horns at the top of the pods.

The flowering period is between May and September.

The species has chromosome number 2n = 14.

Beach levkoye ( Matthiola sinuata )

Occurrence

The beach Levkoje comes in Morocco , Algeria, Tunisia, Libya , Portugal, Spain, on the Balearic Islands , in Corsica , Sardinia , Sicily, Malta , France, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland, Croatia , Montenegro , Albania, Greece, Crete and in European part of Turkey. It thrives on sandy and rocky coasts.

Taxonomy

The Strand-Levkoje was built by Carl von Linné in Amoen. Acad. 4: 104, 48, first described in 1759 with the name Cheiranthus sinuatus . The species was placed by William Townsend Aiton in Hortus Kew., Ed. 2, 4: 120, 1812 in the genus Matthiola . Synonyms for Matthiola sinuata (L.) WTAiton are Matthiola glandulosa Vis. , Matthiola incana subsp. cyrenaica Brullo & Furnari , Matthiola sinuata subsp. glandulosa (Vis.) Vierh. and Matthiola sinuata subsp. ligurica (Conti) Vierh.

The generic name Matthiola honors the Italian doctor and botanist Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501–1577, Latin Matthiolus).

literature

James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey: The European Garden Flora. Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-76151-2 , p. 554.

Web links

Commons : Strand-Levkoje ( Matthiola sinuata ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Thomas Meyer, Michael Hassler: Mediterranean and Alpine flora. Datasheet and photos .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Peter Schönfelder , Ingrid Schönfelder: The new cosmos Mediterranean flora. Franckh-Kosmos-Verlag Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-440-10742-3 , p. 154.
↑ Matthiola sinuata at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
↑ ^a ^b Karol Marhold, 2011: Brassicaceae. : Datasheet Matthiola sinuata In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 , doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

[Schönfelder2008-1] Peter Schönfelder , Ingrid Schönfelder: The new cosmos Mediterranean flora. Franckh-Kosmos-Verlag Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-440-10742-3 , p. 154.

[IPCN-2] Matthiola sinuata at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.

[Euro+Med-3] Karol Marhold, 2011: Brassicaceae. : Datasheet Matthiola sinuata In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.

[Burkhardt_2018-4] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 , doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .