Shaggy lilac

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Shaggy lilac
Syringa villosa, illustration

Syringa villosa , illustration

Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Olive family (Oleaceae)
Genre : Lilac ( syringa )
Type : Shaggy lilac
Scientific name
Syringa villosa
Vahl

The Shaggy lilacs ( Syringa villosa ) is a shrub with purple pink flowers from the family of Olive Family (Oleaceae). The natural range is in China. The species is often used as an ornamental shrub.

description

The shaggy lilac is a shrub up to 4 meters high with thick, bare, slightly downy-haired to shaggy branches. Terminal buds are present. The leaves have a stalk that is 0.8 to 2.5 centimeters long. The leaf blade is simple, 4 to 11, rarely up to 18 centimeters long and 1.5 to 6, rarely up to 11 centimeters wide, broadly elliptical to obovate-oblong, with a pointed to short pointed tip and wedge-shaped or more or less rounded Base. The upper side of the leaf is deep green and bare, the underside is blue-green, finely hairy or bearded only along the veins .

The flowers grow in upright, terminal, compact, hairy and leafy panicles 5 to 13, rarely up to 17 centimeters long and 3 to 10 centimeters in diameter . The flower stalk is 0.5 to 1.5 millimeters long, the calyx 2 to 4 millimeters. The corolla is 1 to 2 centimeters wide and red-purple, pink or white. The corolla tube is slender, more or less cylindrical and 0.7 to 1.5 inches long. The corolla lobes are ovate to elliptical, blunt and spread out. The anthers are yellow and extend to the throat of the corolla tube or a little beyond it. The fruits are 1 to 1.5 centimeters long, more or less smooth, elongated capsules . The shaggy lilac blooms from May to June, the fruits ripen in September.

distribution

The natural range of Syringa villosa subsp. villosa is located in the Chinese provinces of Hebei and Shanxi . The shaggy lilac grows along rivers and ravines and in thickets at altitudes of 1200 to 2200 meters on moderately dry to moist, slightly acidic to slightly alkaline, sandy or gravelly-loamy soils in sunny locations. The species loves warmth and is usually frost hardy .

Systematics

The Zottige Lilac ( Syringa villosa ) is a kind of the genus of Lilac ( Syringa ) in the family of Oleaceae (Oleaceae). There the genus is assigned to the tribe Oleeae. The species was first scientifically described by Martin Vahl in 1804 . The genus name Syringa was chosen by Linnaeus in 1753, previously from around the 16th century the name was used both for the common lilac ( Syringa vulgaris ) and for the European pipe bush ( Philadelphus coronarius ). It was probably derived from the Greek "syrigs", a wind instrument that can be made from the branches of the pipe bush. The specific epithet villosa comes from Latin and means "shaggy".

One can distinguish between two subspecies:

  • Syringa villosa subsp. villosa : It occurs in northern China. The chromosome numbers given are 2n = 46 and 2n = 48.
  • Syringa villosa subsp. wolfii (CKSchneid.) Jin Y.Chen & DYHong (Syn .: Syringa wolfii C.K.Schneid. ): It occurs from Far Eastern Asiatic Russia to Korea, Heilongjian and Jilin. The chromosome number is given as 2n = 46.

use

The shaggy lilac is often used as an ornamental shrub because of its decorative flowers .

proof

literature

  • Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 15: Myrsinaceae through Loganiaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1996, ISBN 0-915279-37-1 , pp. 282 (English).
  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 644.
  • Jost Fitschen: Woody flora . 12th, revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2007, ISBN 3-494-01422-1 , p. 828 .
  • Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 (reprint from 1996).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name according to Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 644 and after Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 828
  2. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 644
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Mei-chen Chang, Lien-ching Chiu, Zhi Wei, Peter S. Green: Syringa villosa , in the Flora of China , Volume 15, p. 282
  4. ↑ a b Syringa villosa. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed July 3, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 625
  6. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 683
  7. ↑ a b Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Syringa villosa. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved December 10, 2017.

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