Gentiana frigida

Tauern - gentian ( Gentiana frigida )

The Tauern gentian ( Gentiana frigida ) is in the Styrian Tauern mountains and in the Carpathians native plant from the family of the Gentian Family ( Gentianaceae ).

Features

The Tauern Gentian is a Hemikryptophyt and reaches stature heights of 5 to 15 cm. The stems are erect and usually wear a simple ( rarely up to three) flower ( s). The leaves are crowded at the stem base in a rosette. They are linear to lanceolate, have a vein are plump. The lower leaves are short-stalked, the upper ones are sessile.

The flowers are single and terminal, or one to three in the upper leaf axils. The calyx teeth are dull and about as long as the calyx tube. The crown is whitish, with a broad light blue stripes and blue dots in the throat. The crown is funnel-shaped to campanulate. The appendage between the Kronblattzipfeln are pointed triangular. The crown is from 2 to 3.5 cm long. The stamens are free. The stigma lobes are fringed. Flowering time is July to September.

The fruits are capsules vielsamige. The seeds are covered with white membranous lamellae.

Dissemination and locations

The Tauern Enzian has its main distribution in the Carpathian Mountains. In the Eastern Alps it is only in Upper Styria ago in the Lower Tauern. It grows in rocky grass and rocky corridors on lime-free soils of the alpine uplands ( up to 2400 m).

Documents

  • M. A. 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
  • Siegmund Seybold (ed.): Schmeil Fitschen - interactive ( CD -Rom ), Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2001/2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6
Asterids Gentianales Genus Species Niedere Tauern Stigma (botany)
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