Lilium bosniacum

Lilium bosniacum

Lilium bosniacum is a species in the genus of lilies ( Lilium) in the Candidum section.

Description

Lilium bosniacum is a perennial, herbaceous plant that reaches the heights of growth between 30 and 90 centimeters.

The numerous lanceolate leaves with glabrous leaf veins are scattered around the stem from which they project horizontally. The plant flowers with turks collar-shaped flowers on short peduncle. The six arranged bloom ( tepals ) are so strongly bent back to nearly touch the stem. The flowers are yellow to orange-red.

Dissemination

Lilium bosniacum is endemic in Bosnia in the central Dinaric Alps mountain on mats at altitudes around 1400 m above sea level. It thrives best on lean calcareous soils.

System

As part of the systematic difficult resolvable carniolicum group their systematic position has long been unclear, it was also as a subspecies or variety of Pyrenean Lily ( Lilium pyrenaicum ), as a synonym of Lilium chalcedonicum, as a subspecies of Lilium jankae as well as an independent species performed. First molecular genetic studies underpinned its position as stand-alone article

Endangering

As a rare species it is on the "Red List" of Bosnia - Herzegovina.

Swell

• Carl field Maier, Judith McRae: The new lilies, 1982, ISBN 3-8001-6121-4
• E. Muratovic et al. Lilium Does bosniacum merit species rank? A classical and molecular cytogenetic analysis, in: Plant Systematics and Evolution, 252: 97-109 (2005)