Eyelash umbilical gland
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Eyelash umbilical gland ( Moehringia ciliata ) |
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The Eyelash sandwort ( Moehringia ciliata ), even stone-sandwort is a herbaceous, niedrigwüchsige mountain plant from the family of the Pink family (Caryophyllaceae).
description
Eyelash umbilical cords are persistent and reach heights of growth of 2 to 8 centimeters, but creeping shoot lengths of 20 to 30 centimeters. The slightly fleshy, briefly pointed, grass-green leaves have a linear-lanceolate shape and are about 6 to 10 millimeters long. They are weakly one-nerved (rarely three-nerved), glabrous - but mostly ciliate at the base - and overwinter green. The stem is finely hairy (not glandular) towards the top.
The approximately 4 to 5 millimeter wide white flowers sit individually or up to three on approximately 10 millimeter long pedicels. The five narrow elliptical petals are entire and slightly longer than the five-pointed, egg-shaped sepals . The bracts have a narrow skin edge. There are three styles and ten stamens . The fruit capsule is slightly longer than the calyx and opens with six teeth that are strongly bent outwards. The kidney-shaped, shiny seeds have a fringed appendage on the navel, from which the German name is derived.
The flowering period extends from June to August.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 24.
Occurrence
The limestone plant prefers small snow valleys , moist rock corridors, fine debris corridors, rocks and gaps in lawns as a location . It is a character species of the order Thlaspietalia rotundifolii, but also occurs in societies of the Arabidion caeruleae. This species can be found up to an altitude of 3000 m. In the Allgäu Alps, it rises in the Tyrolean part of the Bretterspitze up to 2600 m above sea level.
The distribution area includes the limestone mountains from the Eastern Pyrenees over the Alps to the northwestern Balkan Mountains . In Austria it is found scattered in the subalpine to alpine altitudes, but is absent in Vienna and Burgenland . Within Germany, only the Alps and, more rarely, parts of their foreland (as so-called " Alpine floods ") are settled in Bavaria .
literature
- Xaver Finkenzeller, Jürke Grau: Alpine flowers. Recognize and determine (= Steinbach's natural guide ). Mosaik, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-576-11482-3 .
- Manfred A. Fischer, Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. State of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2005, ISBN 3-85474-140-5 .
- Oskar Angerer, Thomas Muer: Alpine plants (= Ulm nature guide ). Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2004, ISBN 3-8001-3374-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ TG Tutin, NA Burges, AO Chater, JR Edmondson, VH Heywood, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . 2nd, revised edition. Volume 1: Psilotaceae to Platanaceae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York / Melbourne 1993, ISBN 0-521-41007-X , pp. 151 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . 8th edition. Page 385. Stuttgart, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 2001. ISBN 3-8001-3131-5
- ↑ Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 1, IHW, Eching 2001, ISBN 3-930167-50-6 , p. 509.
Web links
- Eyelash umbilical gland. In: FloraWeb.de.
- Distribution map for Germany. In: Floraweb .
- Moehringia ciliata (Scop.) Dalla Torre In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora .
- Thomas Meyer: Umbilical data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia )