Bellevalia

Roman hyacinth ( Bellevalia romana )

The Bellevalia are a genus within the family asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ). Germanized they are called " Belle Valien ", some species such as the closely related genus Hyacinthus called " hyacinth ". The approximately 65 species are from the Mediterranean area: Turkey ( twelve species) and Israel (twelve species), to the central Asia: widespread in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan ( two species).

Description

Bellevalia species are perennial herbaceous plants. This form Geophyten onions with a membranous, brown jacket ( " Tunic " ) as outlasting. Only basal and some simple, parallel venation leaves.

Terminally on cylindrical, smooth Blütenstandsschäften are racemose inflorescences. The numerous flowers are in axillary small, membranous bracts. The straight flower stems grow to fruit ripening and then stand off. The hermaphrodite flowers are triple. The six identically shaped bracts are fused on a third to half their length Roehrig, bell-shaped or funnel-shaped. The non -grown portion of the bloom is more or less bent outwardly. The colors of bloom ranges from white to cream to brown or more rarely from blue to purple; often, their color changes from buds state to form seeds. There are two circles, each with three stamens present; the short anthers are blue. The three carpels are fused into a superior ovaries. The capsule fruit is triangular in cross section with winged edges. The seeds are more or less spherical and frosted, rarely oblong and shiny.

System

The genus was first published in 1808 by Bellevalia Philippe -Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse. The genus name honors the French botanist Pierre Richer de Belleval ( 1564-1632 ). A synonym for Bellevalia Lapeyr. is Strangweja Bertol. The homonym Bellevalia Roem. & Schult. is a synonym of the genus Richeria Vahl from the family of Phyllanthaceae.

Some species formerly belonging to the genus Hyacinthus. The genus belongs to the tribe Bellevalia Hyacintheae in the subfamily within the family Scilloideae asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ).

Species

After World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, there are 65 Bellevalia types:

  • Bellevalia anatolica B.Mathew & N.Özhatay
  • Bellevalia assadii Wendelbo
  • Bellevalia aucheri ( Baker) Losinsk.
  • Bellevalia brevipedicellata Turrill: It occurs only in South-West Crete.
  • Bellevalia ciliata ( Cirillo ) T.Nees
  • Bellevalia clusiana Griseb.
  • Bellevalia clusiana Griseb.
  • Bellevalia crassa Wendelbo
  • Bellevalia cyanopoda Wendelbo
  • Bellevalia cyrenaica Maire & Weiller
  • Bellevalia decolorans Bornm.
  • Bellevalia densiflora Boiss.
  • Bellevalia desertorum Eig & Feinbrun
  • Bellevalia dolichophylla Brullo & Miniss.
  • Bellevalia douinii Pabot & Mouterde
  • Bellevalia dubia ( Guss. ) Rchb.
  • Bellevalia edirnensis N.Özhatay & B.Mathew
  • Bellevalia eigii Feinbrun: home is southern Israel and Egypt.
  • Bellevalia feinbruniae Friday & Wendelbo
  • Bellevalia flexuosa Boiss.
  • Bellevalia fominii Voronov
  • Bellevalia galitensis Bocchieri & Mossa
  • Bellevalia glauca ( Lindl. ) Kunth
  • Bellevalia gracilis Feinbrun
  • Bellevalia hermonis Mouterde
  • Bellevalia heweri Wendelbo
  • Bellevalia hyacinthoides ( Bertol. ) K.Perss. & Wendelbo
  • Bellevalia koeiei Rech.f.
  • Bellevalia kurdistanica Feinbrun
  • Bellevalia leucantha K.Perss: home is Turkey.
  • Bellevalia lipskyi ( Miscz. ) E.Wulf
  • Bellevalia longipes Post: Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq
  • Bellevalia longistyla ( Miscz. ) Grossh.
  • Bellevalia macrobotrys Boiss.
  • Bellevalia mathewii N.Özhatay & B.Koçak
  • Bellevalia mauritanica Pomel
  • Bellevalia modesta Wendelbo
  • Bellevalia montana ( K.Koch ) Boiss, Syn: .. Bellevalia albana Voronov, Bellevalia makuensis Voronov ex Grossh, Bellevalia wilhelmsii ( Steven ) Voronov
  • Bellevalia mosheovii Feinbrun
  • Bellevalia multicolor Wendelbo
  • Snow White Hyacinth ( Bellevalia nivalis Boiss & Kotschy, Syn. Bellevalia Pieridis ( Holmboe ) Feinbrun )
  • Bellevalia olivieri ( Baker) Wendelbo, Syn Bellevalia latifolia Feinbrun
  • Bellevalia palmyrensis Feinbrun
  • Bellevalia paradoxa ( Fisch. & CAMey. ) Boiss, Syn. Bellevalia pycnantha ( K.Koch ) Losinsk.
  • Bellevalia parva Wendelbo
  • Bellevalia pelagica C.Brullo, Brullo & Pasta: It is endemic to Lampione
  • Bellevalia rixii Wendelbo
  • Roman hyacinth ( Bellevalia romana (L.) Sweet): home is Southern Europe.
  • Bellevalia salah - eidii Täckh. & Boulos
  • Bellevalia saviczii Woron.
  • Bellevalia sessiliflora ( viv ) Kunth
  • Bellevalia shiraziana Parsa
  • Bellevalia sitiaca Kypriotakis & Tzanoud. It occurs only in eastern Crete.
  • Bellevalia speciosa Voronov ex Grossh, Syn. Bellevalia sarmatica ( Pall. ex Georgi ) Voronov
  • Bellevalia stepporum Feinbrun
  • Bellevalia tabriziana Turrill
  • Bellevalia tauri Feinbrun
  • Trifoliate hyacinth ( Bellevalia trifoliata ( Ten. ) Kunth )
  • Bellevalia tristis Bornm.
  • . Bellevalia turkestanica Franch, Syn: Bellevalia atroviolacea rule
  • Bellevalia validicarpa Ponert
  • Bellevalia warburgii Feinbrun
  • Bellevalia webbiana Parl
  • Bellevalia wendelboi Maassoumi & Jafari: History is the western Iran.
  • Bellevalia zoharyi Feinbrun

No longer belong to the genus (selection):

  • Muscari caucasicum ( Griseb. ) Baker, Syn: Bellevalia caucasica Griseb.
  • Pseudomuscari forniculatum ( Fomin) Garbari, Syn: Bellevalia forniculata ( Fomin) Deloney, Muscari forniculatum Fomin: home is Turkey.

Swell

  • S. I. Ali: Flora of Pakistan. 214: Hyacinthaceae. University of Karachi, Department of Botany, Karachi 2005 Bellevalia, p.2, online (English ).
  • Bellevalia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network ( GRIN), USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
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