Aethionema

Steintäschel ( Aethionema rotundifolium )

Steintäschel ( Aethionema ) are a genus of flowering plants in the family of cruciferous plants ( Brassicaceae). The genus includes about 30 to 50 species with distribution focus in the Mediterranean and West Asia.

In Central Europe Steintäschel varieties are best known as ornamental plants for gardens. Preferably, these are planted on rocky, stony places, or gravelly, well drained ground. The ornamental varieties have been bred mostly all from the Persian Steintäschel ( Aethionema grandiflorum ) out.

Description

Aethionema are branched, one to perennial herbaceous plants or rarely evergreen subshrubs, are sensitive to frost. The sessile, simple leaves are frosted bare and often bluish.

Most many flowers are in high leafless inflorescences. The hermaphrodite flowers are cruciform. There are four sepals present. The four white to pink colored, rarely yellowish petals are undivided, not or hardly emarginate and the same size. There are six stamens present. The maximum short style ends in a capitate stigma.

Steintäschel - species form of two types of one-to viersamigen fruits: Zweiklappig dehiscent, broad- winged little pods or nuts on upright stems.

System

The genus Aethionema was in 1812 by William Townsend Aiton in Hortus Kewensis; or, a Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew, Volume 4, page 80, 2nd edition first described.

Synonyms for Aethionema WT Aiton are: Campyloptera Boiss, Crenularia Boiss, Eunomia DC, Iberidella Boiss, Iondra Raf, Lepia Desv, Lipophragma Schott & Kotschy ex Boiss, Moriera Boiss.. .. .. ..

In the genus Aethionema there are about 45 species (selection):

  • Aethionema anatolicum A. Duran & M. Öztürk; Home: Turkey
  • Armenian Steintäschel ( Aethionema armenum Boiss. ): The home is Armenia, Lebanon and Syria.
  • Aethionema carneum B. Fedtsch. ( Syn: Aethionema cristatum DC, Thlaspi carneum Banks & Sol. . ): The home is located in southwest Asia and Central Asia to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
  • Petite Steintäschel ( Aethionema coridifolium DC. ): The home is located in Turkey, Syria and Lebanon.
  • Aethionema edentulum N. Busch: The home is the region south of the Caucasus and northern Iran.
  • Großblütiges Steintäschel ( Aethionema grandiflorum Boiss & Hohen; Syn: .. .. Aethionema pallidiflorum Hausskn & Bornm ): The home is Turkey and Armenia.
  • Aethionema rotundifolium Boiss.; Home: Caucasus
  • Alpine Steintäschel ( Aethionema saxatile L., WT Aiton; Syn. Aethionema banaticum Janka, Aethionema subcapitatum Bornm, Aethionema Thomasianum sensu Maire, Thlaspi saxatile L.): The wide range in Europe extends from Germany south to in the northwestern Africa and Turkey.

Swell

  • Description in the Flora of Pakistan. (English )
  • GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Aethionema W.T.Aiton. Germplasm Resources Information Network, accessed on October 2011 ( English).
  • Aethionema. In: The Euro Med Plant Base Project. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin- Dahlem, July 2010, accessed on 26 October 2011 ( English).
  • Tatyana Shulkina: Ornamental plants from Russia and Adjacent states of the former Soviet Union. Rostock, the St.Petersburg 2004, ISBN 9785946680325 (text the same as printed work, Aethionema online).
Pierre Edmond Boissier Augustin Pyramus de Candolle Constantine Samuel Rafinesque Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
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