Dipsacaceae

Gloss Scabious ( Scabiosa lucida )

The Dipsacaceae ( Dipsacoideae ) are a subfamily in the plant family of Honeysuckle ( Caprifoliaceae ) within the order of the card -like ( Dipsacales ). Previously, the Dipsacoideae were as own family Dipsacaceae Juss. considered.

Description

These are one-, two-year, or perennial herbaceous plants, or more rarely subshrubs. The always against permanent leaves are mostly undivided. Stipules they do not possess.

A particularly characteristic feature of the teasel family is the little head -shaped inflorescence, which is very similar to the daisy family, and how this is surrounded by bracts (→ Pseudanthium ). However, the structure of the flowers is very different: The hermaphrodite flowers are four - or fünfzählig, with double perianth. The four - or five lobe, at the edge of the bowl often strongly zygomorphic flowers are often surrounded by an outer calyx. The outer calyx consists of two intergrown continue reading. The cup and the outer cup are almost always trockenhäutig and bristly. The petals are fused together. The two carpels are fused to an inferior ovary. The most four ( rarely two or three ) stamens are fused into a tube. They are seeded indehiscent fruits, called achenes.

Dissemination

The Dipsacaceae come across the Old World from the temperate latitudes to subtropical area, in tropical and southern Africa. However, your distribution area it has in the Mediterranean region and in Asia Minor. The majority of species are found in dry or at least periodically dry, open areas such as steppes or grasslands.

System

In the subfamily of the teasel family ( Dipsacoideae ) there are about 11 to 14 genera with about 290 species:

• Bassecoia BLBurtt: The home of the species is about 2 China and Indochina.
• Shed heads ( Cephalaria Schrad ex Roem & Schult.. . ): The approximately 65 species are located mainly in the Mediterranean and Asia Minor. The distribution area further extends from the western into the Central Asia and is also in southern Africa.
• Carding ( Dipsacus L., Syn Simenia Szabó ): The approximately 20 species are western Europe, common in the Mediterranean and the southern and eastern Asia.
• Scabious ( knautia L., Syn Trichera Schrad ex Roem & Schult.. . ): The distribution area of ​​about 60 species located in Europe and around the Mediterranean in the west Africa and South West Asia.
• Grasskabiosen ( Lomelosia Raf, Syn: .. Pycnocomon Hoffmann & Link, Scabiosiopsis Rech.f., Tremastelma Raf. ): From a total of approximately 40 species, about half in Europe are widespread.
• Pseudoscabiosa Devesa (syn. Scabiosa sect Asterothrix font cross. ): The approximately three species are widespread in the Mediterranean.
• Pterocephalidium G.López: the only kind: Pterocephalidium diandrum ( Lag ) G.López: The home is the Iberian Peninsula.

• Pterocephalodes hookeri ( CBClarke ) V.Mayer & Ehrend. , The home is the south-western China and the Himalayas with Bhutan, Sikkim and Nepal to the Indian.

• Pterocephalus hookeri ( C.B.Clarke ) Diels
• Pterocephalus porphyranthus Svent.

• Usually Teufelsabbiss ( Succisa pratensis)

• Succisella inflexa ( Kluk ) Beck ( Syn: Scabiosa inflexa Kluk )

Swell

• Entry to the family Dipsacaceae on the APWebsite. (English )
• Description of the teasel family at DELTA. (English )
• J. Nasir Yasin: Flora of West Pakistan 94: Dipsacaceae. Stewart Herbarium, Rawalpindi, 1975, pp. 1-12, OCLC 311 348 861 (online).
• The teasel family in the flora Emslandia - plant in Emsland.
• Dipsacoideae in the Germplasm Resources Information Network ( GRIN), USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.