Armeria

Armeria pubigera

Thrift ( Armeria ) constitute a genus of flowering plants in the family of Plumbago plants ( Plumbaginaceae ). The approximately 50 species are distributed in North America, southern South America, in Europe, western Asia ( northern Siberia) and northern Africa.

• 4.1 Notes and references

Description

Appearance and leaves

Thrifts species are perennial herbaceous plants. Are formed taproots. In basal rosettes are the sessile leaves. The simple leaf blades are linear to linear which can become narrower at the base and have a smooth margin.

Inflorescences and flowers

The solitary Blütenstandsschäfte are glabrous or densely pubescent, sometimes wrinkled and wrapped at the upper end of tubed leaf sheaths. The terminal, hemispherical, total capitate inflorescences are made winding similar zymösen part inflorescences standing composed in which together are some resistant to many flowers. Every part of inflorescence is surrounded by trockenhäutigen bracts. There are more than a short flower stems available.

The hermaphrodite flowers are fünfzählig double perianth. There are species in which two, with respect to pollen and scar characteristics, different types of flowers occur. The five sepals are fused funnel-shaped and envelop even the ripe fruit. The zehnrippige calyx tube usually hairy on the ribs or completely fluffy, rarely glabrous. The sepals are membranous with or without awn. Five petals are fused only at their base and can be white to dark purple. It's just a circle with five free stamens present which do not project beyond the corolla. The stamens are fused to the base of the petals. The five free pen are hairy at the top and end up in a papillose or smooth scar.

Fruit and seeds

The umhüllenten from the chalice, dry fruits open transversely and contain only one seed.

Sets of chromosomes

The basic chromosome number is x = 9

Systematics and distribution

The genus Armeria in 1809 by Carl Ludwig von Willdenow in Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis: continens descriptiones omnium vegetabilium in horto dicto cultorum / D. Car. Lud. Willdenow. Berolini, Volume 1, pp. 333-335 established. Type species is Armeria vulgaris Willd .. A homonym is Armeria Kuntze ( in revisions Generum Plantarum, 2, 1891, pp. 432, published). The genus name Armeria Willd. nom. cons. accordance with the rules of the ICBN ( Vienna ICBN Art 14.4 & App. III) conserved over the older synonym Statice L. nom. rej. The genus name Armeria is derived from the Celtic ar mor and refers to the site located on the coast of some species.

The genus Armeria belongs to the tribe Staticeae in the subfamily Staticoideae within the family Plumbaginaceae.

There are about 50 Armeria species that are common in temperate to cold climates in North America, southern South America, in Europe, western Asia ( northern Siberia) and northern Africa. Here, native to Europe and the Mediterranean Armeria species:

• Armeria albi ( Bernis ) Nieto fields.
• Armeria Alboi ( Bernis ) Nieto fields.
• Armeria alliacea ( Cav. ) Hoffmann. & Link
• Alps Thrift ( Armeria alpina Willd, Syn: .. Armeria maritima subsp alpina ( Willd.) P.Silva ): It is used in Central Europe in the Alps and in Southern Europe.
• Armeria alpinifolia Pau & Font cross
• Armeria ambifaria Focke
• Armeria arctica ( Cham. ) Wallr.
• Armeria arcuata Boiss. & Reut.
• Plantain Thrift ( Armeria arenaria ( Pers.) Schult. ): It occurs in southwestern Germany, in Switzerland, in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
• Armeria aspromontana Brullo & al.
• Armeria atlantica Pomel
• Armeria beirana Franco
• Armeria belgenciensis Kerguélen
• Armeria berlengensis Daveau
• Armeria bigerrensis ( C.Vicioso & Beltrán ) Rivas Mart.
• Armeria bourgaei Merino
• Armeria brutia Brullo, Gangale & Uzunov
• Armeria caballeroi ( Bernis ) Donad.
• Armeria caespitosa ( Ortega) Boiss.
• Armeria canescens (host) Boiss.
• Armeria cantabrica Boiss. & Reut. ex Willk. & Lange
• Armeria cariensis Boiss.
• Armeria Carpetana Villar
• Armeria castellana Laresche
• Armeria castroviejoi Nieto fields.
• Armeria choulettiana Pomel
• Armeria ciliata ( Lange) Nieto fields.
• Armeria colorata Pau
• Armeria daveaui ( Cout. ) P.Silva
• Armeria denticulata ( Bertol. ) DC.
• Armeria duriaei Boiss.
• Armeria duriensis Franco
• Armeria ebracteata Pomel
• Armeria eriophylla Willk.
• Armeria euscadiensis Donad. & Vivant
• Armeria filicaulis ( Boiss. ) Boiss.
• Armeria fontqueri Pau
• Armeria gaditana Boiss.
• Armeria genesiana Nieto fields.
• Armeria girardii ( Bernis ) Litard.
• Armeria helodes F.Martini & Poldini
• Hirta Armeria Willd.
• Armeria Hispalensis Pau
• Armeria humilis (Link) Schult.
• Armeria icarica J.R.Edm.
• Armeria johnsenii Papan. & Kokini: This endemic to the Greek island of Euboea thrives on rocks at the coast.
• Armeria juncea Wallr.
• Armeria juniperifolia ( Vahl ) Hoffmann. & Link
• Armeria langei Boiss.
• Armeria langei Long
• Armeria leucocephala W.D.J.Koch
• Armeria linkiana Nieto fields.
• Littoralis Armeria Willd.
• Armeria macrophylla Boiss. & Reut. It occurs only in southern Portugal and south-western Spain.
• Armeria macropoda Boiss.
• Armeria Malacitana Nieto fields.
• Armeria malinvaudii H.J.Coste & Soulie
• Armeria marginata ( Levier ) Bianchini
• Beach thrift ( Armeria maritima (Mill.) Willd. ): There are many subspecies (selection): True beach thrift ( Armeria maritima (Mill.) Willd maritima subsp. . ): It is native to Europe and Greenland in North America and is a neophyte.
• Armeria maritima subsp. azorica Franco
• Armeria maritima subsp. barcensis ( Simonk. ) P.Silva
• Armeria maritima subsp. californica ( Boiss. ) AEPorsild: It grows at altitudes between 0 and 200 meters only in British Columbia and the U.S. states of California, Oregon and Washington.
• Armeria maritima subsp. cantabrica ( Willk. ) Malag.
• Sand Thrift ( Armeria maritima subsp elongata ( Hoffm. ) Bonnier. ): It is used in Europe.
• Armeria maritima subsp. fontqueri
• Calamine Thrift ( Armeria maritima subsp halleri ( Wallr. ) Rothm. . ): It comes in western and central Europe from the Pyrenees to the Netherlands and Poland.
• Armeria maritima subsp. interior ( Raup ) AEPorsild: This endemic species is known only from the southern shore of Lake Athabasca in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
• Armeria maritima subsp. intermedia ( T.Marsson ) Nordh.
• Armeria maritima subsp. legionensis ( Bernis ) M.Laínz
• Armeria maritima subsp. miscella ( Merino) Malag.
• Armeria maritima subsp. muelleri ( A.Huet ) O.Bolòs & Vigo
• Armeria maritima subsp. planifolia ( Syme ) Löve & Löve
• Armeria maritima subsp. sibirica ( Turcz. ex Boiss. ) Nyman: It is distributed in Eurasia, Greenland, Alaska and Colorado and northern Canada.
• Purple Thrift ( Armeria maritima subsp purpurea ( WDJKoch ) Á.Löve & D.Löve. ): It comes only in Southern Germany and perhaps in northern Italy and came earlier also in Switzerland.
• Armeria maritima subsp. sibirica ( Boiss. ) Nyman

Use

Some varieties of a few thrift - species (eg Armeria alliacea, Armeria juniperifolia, Armeria leucocephala, Armeria maritima ) are used as ornamental plants. They thrive on exposed sunny locations and can be used well in rock gardens or as a border planting.

Swell

• Claude Lefebvre & Xavier Vekemans: Armeria - text the same online as printed work, In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 5 - Magnoliophyta: Caryophyllidae, part 2, Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2005. ISBN 0-19-522211-3 (Section Description and systematics)
• G. Nieto Feliner: Armeria Willd. nom. . cons, pp. 642-721 - Full-text PDF, In Santiago Castroviejo, Manuel Lainz, Ginés López González, Pedro Montserrat, Félix Muñoz Garmendia, Jorge Paiva, Luis Villar (ed.): Fauna Ibérica. Plantas de la Península Ibérica vasculares e Islas Baleares, Volume II Platanaceae - Plumbaginaceae ( partim). Real Jardin Botanico, CSIC, Madrid, 1990, ISBN 84-00-07034-8, pp. lii 897