Buglossoides

Blue Red Stone Same ( Buglossoides purpurocaerula )

The beef tongues or stone seeds ( Buglossoides ) are a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae of ( Boraginaceae ). The 9 to 15 species are widespread in Eurasia.

Description

Vegetative characteristics

The beef tongues species are annual or perennial herbaceous plants or subshrubs with stature heights up to 0.5 meters. Stems and leaves have bristly - hairs. The change-constant leaves usually do not have a petiole, are simple and hairy at the top. At the bottom, only the median nerve is visible. Stipules absent.

Generative features

The flowers are usually in slabs. The hermaphrodite flowers are radial symmetry and fünfzählig. The five sepals are fused. The deformed crown has in pharyngeal no wrinkles, but only five distinct glands or hair strips. The corolla lobes are much shorter than the corolla tube. The color of the crown is white to off-white, or blue to purple. It's just a circle with five stamens present. Two carpels are fused into a superior ovaries, which is divided by a false septum in four parts.

The two or four fruits per part Klaus fruit are nutty and each contain a seed.

System

The genus Buglossoides in 1794 by Conrad Moench in Methodus Plantas Horti Botanici et Agri Marburgensis: , p 418 erected a staminum situ describendi. The botanical genus name Buglossoides is derived from the Greek words bous for beef or ox and glotta for tongue and oides are similar.

The genus belongs to the tribe Buglossoides Lithospermeae in the subfamily Boraginoideae within the family Boraginaceae. The genus is sometimes incorporated into the genus Lithospermum.

The genus includes about Buglossoides nine to 15 species, with only seven species also occur in Europe. In Central Europe the following three types occur:

  • Arable Gromwell or arable beef tongue ( Buglossoides arvensis (L.) IMJohnston )
  • Blue Red Blue Red Gromwell or ox tongue, ox tongue Purple Blue, Purple Blue Stone Same ( Buglossoides purpurocaerulea (L.) IMJohnston ): The distribution ranges from southern and central Europe through Asia Minor to Iran.
  • Thick stalk beef tongue ( Buglossoides incrassata ( Guss. ) IMJohnston ): The home is Austria and South Tyrol.

Documents

  • MA Fischer, K. Oswald, W. Adler: Exkursionsflora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol. Third Edition, Upper Austria, Biology Centre of the Upper Austrian Provincial Museum, Linz 2008, ISBN 978-3-85474-187-9
  • H.R. Coleman: Buglossoides, in: Flora Base - the Western Australian Flora, accessed on 3 May 2008
  • Short description in the Flora of Pakistan. (English )
  • Buglossoides at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. Retrieved on July 12, 2013.
Lithospermum purpurocaeruleum Asterids Perennial plant Ovary (botany)
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