Physoplexis comosa

Schopf Devil's Claw ( Physoplexis comosa )

The mop of devil's claw ( Physoplexis comosa ) is the only species of the genus Physoplexis within the family of the bellflower family ( Campanulaceae ). It is native to Austria, Italy and the former Yugoslavia.

Features

The mop of devil's claw is a perennial, herbaceous plant that reaches stature heights between 5 and 15 centimeters. It forms a Pleiokorm Turnip. The basal leaves are roundish - reniform, coarsely and deeply cut and long stalks. The stem leaves are oblong - ovate. The lower narrowing in the stem, the upper ones are coarsely toothed and sitting, with wedge-shaped base. The crown is pale purple and 16 to 20 millimeters long. It is made of an egg-shaped bottom of a beak, which is dark purple at the top, pulled together. In contrast to the Devil's Claw ( Phyteuma ) but this tip remain stapled together and later not be separated. The style ends in two scars.

The flowering period extends from July to August.

The species has 2n = 34 chromosome number

Occurrence

The mop of devil's claw comes in the Southern Limestone Alps from Lake Como before to the West Karavanke and the Julian Alps. So you grows wild only in the areas of Austria, Italy and the former Yugoslavia. It grows in the montane and subalpine zones in absonnigen lime and dolomite rock crevices at altitudes from 1000 to 1700 (rarely over 60 and up to 2000 ) meters.

Taxonomy

Previously this species was placed in the genus Phyteuma. Ferdinand Schur presented on a separate genus for this species. The name Physoplexis but Stephan Ladislaus Finite had formed in 1838, the sect the cropping devil's claw within the genus Phyteuma in its own section with the name Phyteuma. Had asked: Physoplexis ( Genera, p 517 in the factory). The name Physoplexis comes from the Greek and means bladder, braided, because of the bubble- shaped contiguous petals. The specific epithet comosus is derived from the Latin and means schopfig.

Use

The mop of devil's claw is rarely used as an ornamental plant for rock gardens

Documents

  • Eckhart J. Hunter, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd Müller, K. (ed.): Rothmaler - Excursion Flora of Germany. Volume 5: Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8, p 533
  • Jürgen Damboldt: Physoplexis ( Endl. ) Schur. In: Thomas Gaskell Tutin et al: Flora Europaea. Volume 4 p 98 Cambridge University Press 1976. ISBN 0-521-08717-1
  • ER Farr, JA Leussink, Frans Antonie Stafleu: Index nominum genericorum. 3 volumes. Regnum vegetable. Utrecht 1979.
Perennial plant Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur Tom Tutin Frans Stafleu
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