Cryptocoryne

Wendt'scher water cup ( Cryptocoryne wendtii )

The water goblets ( Cryptocoryne ) are a genus of flowering plants in the family of Araceae Araceae. The first Cryptocoryne species was already described in 1779 as Arum spirale by Anders Jahan Retzius. The genus named Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer 1828th An obsolete name of the genus is water trumpets.

Occurrence

The genus is South and Southeast Asia, as well as widespread in tropical India, in New Guinea. It is water and marsh plants. It inhabits flowing waters, shores of this and residual pools of water on floodplains.

Description

There are perennial herbaceous plants. There are aquatic and marsh plants. You can live submerged ( under water) and emersed ( above water ). But they come to bloom only during an emergent phase. They reproduce mainly by creeping, rarely by upright rhizomes. The species are highly variable because they are responding to their particular environment in their appearance. The parallel venation, simple leaves are usually pedunculated and are in undergraduate rosettes.

They are monoecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( monoecious ). The unisexual flowers are triple. The inflorescence consists of a pedicled spathe ( bract ), which is expanded at the base to a boiler. In the boiler the female and male flowers are arranged around the piston ( spadix ). At the bottom are usually six fertile female flowers with a stamp consisting of spliced ​​from three carpels ovary, style and stigma. Then follows a narrow bare, sterile piston section. In addition there are 40 male flowers. The top part of the piston is bare again. Are formed berries.

Importance for the aquarium

Approximately 100 to 150 species of different plant families are regularly offered in stores for planting in aquariums. Among them are about 10 to 15 Water Goblet species. The genus of the water goblets but includes many more species. The other species are taken also cultivated. However, your attitude makes special demands, so that they are cared for by specialists. Many species require for successful culture is also an emergent culture and are therefore best to keep in paludariums.

Diseases

Water goblets are generally more susceptible to the aquarium plants. They are very sensitive to changes in water levels. It frequently results in the so-called Cryptocoryne, in which decompose the leaves.

Species

There are about 60 species:

  • Cryptocoryne affinis N. E. Br ex Hook. f, Malay Peninsula
  • Cryptocoryne alba
  • Cryptocoryne albida R. Parker, Myanmar
  • Cryptocoryne annamica
  • Cryptocoryne aponogetifolia
  • Cryptocoryne auriculata
  • Cryptocoryne bangkaensis
  • Cryptocoryne beckettii Thwaites ex Trimen, Sri Lanka
  • Cryptocoryne bogneri
  • Cryptocoryne bullosa
  • Cryptocoryne ciliata ( Roxb. ) fish. ex Wydler, Southeast Asia to New Guinea
  • Cryptocoryne cognata
  • Cryptocoryne consobrina
  • Cryptocoryne cordata handle. : C. cordata var cordata, Thailand
  • C. cordata var diderici
  • C. cordata var grabowskii ( Engl ) N. Jacobsen, Thailand, Malay Peninsula
  • C. cordata var zonata ( De Wit) N. Jacobsen, North Kalimantan
  • Cryptocoryne crispatula var balansae ( Gagnep. ) N. Jacobsen, Thailand, North Vietnam
  • Cryptocoryne crispatula var crispatula
  • Cryptocoryne crispatula var flaccidifolia
  • Cryptocoryne crispatula var sinensis
  • Cryptocoryne crispatula var tonkinensis
  • Cryptocoryne cruddasiana
  • Cryptocoryne decus - silvae
  • Cryptocoryne dewitii
  • Cryptocoryne edithiae
  • Cryptocoryne elliptica
  • Cryptocoryne ferruginea
  • Cryptocoryne fusca De Wit, Kalimantan
  • Cryptocoryne griffithii Schott, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra
  • Cryptocoryne hudoroi
  • Cryptocoryne ideii
  • Cryptocoryne jacobsenii
  • Cryptocoryne Keei
  • Cryptocoryne lingua
  • Cryptocoryne longicauda
  • Cryptocoryne minima
  • Cryptocoryne moehlmannii
  • Cryptocoryne nevillii Trimen ex Hook. f, Sri Lanka
  • Cryptocoryne noritoi
  • Cryptocoryne nurii
  • Cryptocoryne pallidinervia
  • Cryptocoryne parva De Wit, Sri Lanka
  • Cryptocoryne pontederiifolia Schott
  • Cryptocoryne x purpurea Ridl, Malay Peninsula.: C. purpurea nothovar. borneoensis
  • C. purpurea nothovar. purpurea
  • Cryptocoryne pygmaea
  • Cryptocoryne retrospiralis ( Roxb. ) Kunth, India, Myanmar
  • Cryptocoryne schulzei
  • Cryptocoryne scurrilis
  • Cryptocoryne sivadasanii
  • Cryptocoryne spiralis: C. spiralis spiralis var
  • C. spiralis var cognatoides

Pictures

Cryptocoryne pontederiifolia

Swell

  • Website to the genus (English)
  • Walter Erhardt et al: The big walleye. Encyclopedia of plant names. Volume 2 Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
Heinrich Wydler Ovary (botany) Berry
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