Lilium carniolicum

Lilium carniolicum

The Carniolan lily ( Lilium carniolicum ) is a species of the genus Lilium (Lilium ) in the section Liriotypus ( Candidum section). It is very rare to find in the German speaking exclusively in Carinthia.

Description

The Carniolan lily is a perennial herbaceous plant, reaching heights of growth from 50 to 100 inches, the egg-shaped to round, yellow onion is grown around 6 inches tall.

The plant forms from the spring from a hairless and purple mottled in the lower part of the stem. It is arranged tightly with alternate, lanceolate leaves protruding upright occupied, which are up to 8 inches long, the leaf margin is just like the Vein of the leaf underside ciliated papillae.

In May-July seems a panicle with one, sometimes up to six, unpleasant smelling, hanging flowers. The upside - lanceolate, up to 5 cm long bracts are strongly recurved. The color is hellzinnoberrot to fiery red, the ground dotted too dark and papillose. A nectar groove is present. The anthers are saffron yellow, the club-shaped stylus.

The fruit is a 3 to 4 inches long, blunt-edged capsule up to 6 mm long seeds germinate instant- hypogeous in direct sowing, otherwise delayed - epigeal. The chromosome number is 2n = 24

Distribution / habitat

The Carniolan lily is found in Italy and Austria to the former Yugoslavia. In Germany and Switzerland, it is not native. In Austria, it occurs only in Carinthia in the Karawanken and the Dobratsch. It is rare here and is under full legal nature. Often it is in the southeastern Alps and the Dinaric Mountains, where it is to find the Julian Alps and the Trieste Karst particularly in the Karawanken.

The Carniolan lily is kalkliebend and grows on rocky slopes, dry, rocky meadows and rock debris in the montane to subalpine altitudinal zone, mostly 1800-2000 m, occasionally up to 220 meters down - or up to 2400 meters in ascending order. It is found there in hollows, where moisture and humus have accumulated.

System

The Carniolan lily was first described in 1837 by Franz Karl Mertens and Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, the scientific name was coined by Johann Jakob Bernhardi and is a Latinized form of Krain, home of the way, refers to the even the trivial name.

Evidence

• Gustav Hegi: Illustrated Flora of Central Europe, Vol 2, Part 2, pp. 238-239
• Manfred A. Fischer (ed. ): Exkursionsflora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol. Upper Austrian Landesmuseum, Linz, 2005. ISBN 3-85474-140-5
• Siegmund Seybold (ed.): Schmeil Fitschen - interactive ( CD -Rom ), Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2001/2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6
• Mark Wood: Lily Species - Notes and Images. CD -ROM, version of 13 July 2006