South alpine tulip
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South alpine tulip ( Tulipa sylvestris subsp. Australis ) |
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The southern alpine tulip ( Tulipa sylvestris subsp. Australis ), also known as the southern tulip , is a subspecies of the wild tulip ( Tulipa sylvestris ) from the genus of the tulip ( Tulipa ).
description
Vegetative characteristics
The southern alpine tulip is a perennial herbaceous plant and reaches heights of growth of 8 to 45 centimeters. Their bulbs are egg-shaped, usually have a few straight hairs on the inside at the tip and often have subterranean runners. The bare, leafy and usually single-flowered stem is no thicker than 2 millimeters in diameter. The two to three mostly alternate leaves are gray-green, somewhat fleshy, runny and narrow. The lowest leaf is less than 1.2 inches wide.
Generative characteristics
The flowering period extends from April to June. The flowers are nodding before they open. The six free, sloping bracts are yellow, the outer crimson to gold colored overflowing, the inner with a dark vertical stripe. The six stamens are shorter than the bracts, somewhat broadened and ciliate at the base. The scar is three-lobed. The seeds are flat.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 24, 36 or 48.
Occurrence
The subspecies Tulipa sylvestris subsp. australis occurs in southern and southeastern Europe as well as in Russia, it is rarer in the central Mediterranean area . In Switzerland it reaches the northern limit of its distribution in Upper Valais . It occurs there on mountain meadows at altitudes of 800 to about 2000 meters.
Taxonomy
It was first published in 1799 under the name ( Basionym ) Tulipa australis by Heinrich Friedrich Link in Journal für die Botanik , Volume 2, p. 317. The rank of a subspecies Tulipa sylvestris subsp. australis (Link) Pamp. received it in 1914 from Renato Pampanini in Bolletino della Società Botanica Italiana , p. 114.
supporting documents
literature
- Xaver Finkenzeller, Jürke Grau: Alpine flowers. Recognize and determine (= Steinbach's natural guide ). New edited edition. Mosaik, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-576-10558-1 , p. 24 .
- Christoph Käsermann: VU Tulipa sylvestris subsp. australis (LINK) PAMP. - South Alpine tulip - Liliaceae. In: Christoph Käsermann, Daniel M. Moser (Hrsg.): Information sheets on species protection - flowering plants and ferns. Federal Office for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, Bern 1999, pp. 282–283 (PDF file).
Individual evidence
- ^ Konrad Lauber, Gerhart Wagner: Flora Helvetica. 3rd revised edition. Paul Haupt, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-258-06313-3 , p. 1472.
- ↑ Tulipa sylvestris subsp. australis at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Tulipa sylvestris subsp. australis at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed December 25, 2016.
Web links
- Tulipa sylvestris subsp. australis (Link) Pamp. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora .