Peltaria

Leek Scheibenschötchen ( Peltaria alliacea )

The Scheibenschötchen ( Peltaria ) are a genus of flowering plants in the family of cruciferous plants (Brassicaceae ). The German trivial name Scheibenschötchen derives from the shape of the fruits from, as well as Peltaria, which differs from the Greek word πέλτη = pelte derived for small shield.

• 3.1 Notes and references

Description

The Scheibenschötchen are perennial herbaceous plants or subshrubs. The leaves are scattered on the stem. The plants are occupied glabrous or with sparse hair fork and often frosted blue-green. The Scheibenschötchen own (few ) long-stalked basal leaves and seated stem leaves with geöhrtem or verschmälertem reason.

The hermaphrodite flowers are cruciform. The four sepals have a membranous border at the top. The four white or reddish petals are nailed short.

When fruits are trained silicles hanging on a short stalk, are disc-shaped and completely flat; they contain from one to three seeds. The ripe fruits are much elevated, netzaderig and moved from one edge nerve.

Distribution and systematics

The Scheibenschötchen come from South Eastern Europe to the Middle East to Central Asia before.

A synonym for Peltaria Jacq. is Leptoplax O.E.Schulz.

After Warwick, Francis and Al - Shehbaz and Kubitzki the genus includes four species of which occur two species in Europe.

List of species

• Leek Scheibenschötchen ( Peltaria alliacea Jacq, Syn. Peltaria perennis ( Ard. ) ​​Markgraf ): from Southeast Austria to Albania. Chromosome number 2n = 14 (28, 56).
• Peltaria emarginata ( Boiss. ) Hausskn. ( Syn: Leptoplax emarginata ( Boiss. ) OESchulz ): endemic in Greece.
• Peltaria angustifolia DC. in the Near East (Israel, Golan Heights, Mount Hermon Mountains; Jordan, Iraq, Iran). Chromosome number 2n = 14
• Peltaria turkmena Lipsky in Central Asia. Chromosome number 2n = 14