Tulipa luanica
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Tulipa luanica is a species of tulip ( Tulipa ) in the lily family (Liliaceae).
features
The bulbs are egg-shaped and measure 3 to 11 × 1.5 to 2.0 centimeters. Runners are not formed. The onion skins are blackish-brown and paper-like. The inner ones are densely covered with 2.5 to 3.5 millimeters long, straight, silky, pressed hair. The stem is 17 to 55 centimeters high, erect, glabrous and blue-green to greyish-green. The three to four, less often five leaves are blue-green to greyish-green and do not reach the height of the flower. The lower ones are opposite. The lowest leaves are 14 to 19 × 2.0 to 5.1 centimeters in size, linear lanceolate-pointed, trough-shaped and slightly wavy. The upper stem leaves are 8 to 12 × 0.6 to 1.5 centimeters in size, linear, pointed and smaller and narrower than the lower ones.
The single flower is erect, rarely curved, bell-shaped and hairless. It has different shades of pink or pink. The members of the perianth are slightly different. The outer bracts are elliptical to obverse-shaped, 4.2 to 6.6 × 2.1 to 3.8 centimeters in size and blunt or rounded. The inner bracts are elliptical-obverse-lanceolate to obverse-shaped-spatulate, 3.8 to 6.5 × 2.0 to 3.1 centimeters in size and blunt to somewhat pointed. The stamens are 9 to 14 (rarely up to 16) millimeters long, white and hairless. The anthers are 10 to 15 millimeters long, purple or purple in color, elongated to elliptical and shorter, the same length or longer than the stamens. Like the anthers, the pollen is purple or purple in color.
The ovary is 10 to 20 (rarely up to 22) millimeters in size, almost sessile and yellow-green. At flowering time they are longer than the stamens. The three scars are bent down, white or cream-colored and papilose. The capsules are ellipsoidal, 25 to 50 × 20 to 28 millimeters in size, pointed, short-stalked and light brown. The seeds are 5 to 10 × 3 to 7 millimeters in size, flat, triangular.
The species blooms from late April to late May. The capsules break open from mid-July to late August.
Tulipa luanica is diploid , the number of chromosomes is 2n = 2x = 24. Two of the chromosome pairs are metacentric, two submetacentric and eight subtelocentric. At 5.25 to 12 microns, the chromosomes are large.
Occurrence
Tulipa luanica is endemic to the south of Kosovo . The species is only known from one location on Pashtrik on the western edge of the White Drin near the Albanian border. There it grows on limestone at altitudes of around 1000 meters. With Tulipa luanica socialized come Fraxinus ornus , Quercus pubescens , Ostrya carpinifolia , Senecio scopolii , Linaria dalmatica , Centaurea kosaninii , Delphinium fissum , Acanthus hungaricus , Centaurea atropurpurea , Helleborus multifidus , palmatum Eryngium , Hesperis matronalis , Erysimum pectinatum , Viola tricolor , Cephalaria pastricensis , Asphodelus albus and Asphodeline lutea .
Systematics
The first description of Tulipa luanica was made in 2015 by Fadil Millaku .
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c d e f g Fadil Millaku, Isa Elezaj: Tulipa luanica (Liliaceae), a New Species from Southern Kosovo . Annales Botanici Fennici 2015, Volume 52, No. 5–6, pp. 315–320, doi : 10.5735 / 085.052.0506 , ( online , PDF 1.3 MB)
literature
- Fadil Millaku, Isa Elezaj: Tulipa luanica (Liliaceae), a New Species from Southern Kosovo . Annales Botanici Fennici 52 (5–6), pp. 315–320 doi : 10.5735 / 085.052.0506 ( online )