Woad (genus)

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Woad
Woad (Isatis tinctoria)

Woad ( Isatis tinctoria )

Systematics
Rosids
Eurosiden II
Order : Cruciferous (Brassicales)
Family : Cruciferous vegetables (Brassicaceae)
Tribe : Isatideae
Genre : Woad
Scientific name
Isatis
L.

Waid ( Isatis ) is a genus of plants in the cruciferous family (Brassicaceae). The trivial name woad derived from althochdeutsch far : related to Latin "vitrum" ( 'woad', 'used for blue dyeing plant "," blue color "," bluish glass') from. The 50 to 94 species are found in Europe and North Africa , but mostly in Central and Southwest Asia.

description

Illustration of woad ( Isatis tinctoria )

Due to their extremely variable morphology , the Asian species in particular are difficult to identify; the only reliable diagnostic feature is the ripe fruit.

Vegetative characteristics

In Isatis TYPES comes to one, (usually) biennial or perennial herbaceous plants . They are often bluish and hairless or hairy. The upright stem is branched.

Most alternate, standing in undergraduate roses or distributed on the stem leaves are stalked or sessile. The leaf blades are elliptical-elongated, heart-shaped to ovate-elongated or arrow-shaped. The leaf margin is smooth, toothed or rarely lobed.

Generative characteristics

The mostly clustered , more rarely umbrella clustered or paniculate inflorescences are multi-flowered and extend considerably until the fruit is ripe. The flower stalks are thin and bent back when the fruit ripens.

The hermaphroditic flowers are four-fold with a double flower envelope (perianth). The four sepals are ascending to erect. The four yellow, white or purple petals are at least as long as the sepals. They have six stamens with very small, egg-shaped or elongated-round anthers. There are nectar glands .

Each fruit, it can pods or silicles be hairy or smooth fluffy and usually contains only one, rarely two seeds. The brownish, elongated-round seed is smooth.

Systematics

The generic name Isatis was first published in 1737 by Carl von Linné in Hortus Cliffortianus Plantas exhibens quas in Hortis vivis quam siccis, Hartecampi in Hollandia coluit , 341. Synonyms for Isatis L. are: Boreava Jaub. & Spach , Goerkemia Yıld. , Martinsia Godr. , Pachypteris Kar. & Kir. non Brongn. , Pachypterygium Bunge , Sameraria Desv. , Tauscheria fish. ex DC. , Tetrapterygium fish. & CAMey.

The genus Isatis belongs to the tribe Isatideae in the family Brassicaceae .

There are 50 to 94 types of Isatis (selection):

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Isatis in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
  2. Database: BrassiBase, Version 1.2, March 2017 of the University of Heidelberg. ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / brassibase.cos.uni-heidelberg.de
  3. a b David Aeschimann, Konrad Lauber, Daniel Martin Moser, Jean-Paul Theurillat: Flora alpina. Volume 1 and 2. Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna Haupt-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-258-06600-0 .
  4. Jaakko Jalas, Juha Suominen: Atlas florae europaeae. Volume 10 Cruciferae (Sisymbrium to Aubrieta). Page 41, Helsinki 1994. ISBN 951-9108-09-2
  5. Karol Marhold: Brassicaceae . In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Berlin 2011.

Web links

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