Lilium pyrophilum
Lilium pyrophilum
Lilium pyrophilum MW Skinner & Sorrie is a species of the genus of lilies ( Lilium) in the American Section.
Description
The bulb of Lilium pyrophilum is unusual wide, branched rhizomes. The plant flowers in late summer from one to 90 centimeters tall stalks, which is occupied in the lower half with short, narrow leaves in one to three whorls, are alternate but in the upper half.
The flower is orange to yellow- orange, dark red polka dots and turks bunch shape. The seed germinates delayed - epigeal, vegetatively propagated the plant through its rhizome.
Distribution and ecology
The plant is one of the rarest species of lilies at all, a total are of her just 250 individuals known. Your deposits are located mainly in the Sandhills region of eastern North Carolina, among others, on the military area of Fort Bragg, single finds have also been reported from South Carolina and southeastern Virginia. Stocks are allopatric, that is, geographically isolated from each other so much that takes place between them no genetic exchange more.
Lilium preferred pyrophilum fully sunny places in marshes with sandy soils in Stream Head pocosins and Sandhill sweeps as companies, inter alia with hose plant and swamp pines. In this ecosystem, with periodic fires, which act as a kind of natural mowing and so only ensure the survival of the lily. Lilium pyrophilum benefited from the ashes to place nutrients and the opening of the plant cover by regular fire.
Systematics and botanical history
Lilium pyrophilum is a close relative of Lilium superbum.
She was occasionally been known since the 40s, but was not taxed as a separate species. It was originally assumed that it was a variety of Lilium iridollae, later it was prized as Lilium superbum or Lilium michauxii.
Only in the context of a research assignment for final clarification of the taxonomic status of Lilium pyrophilum mid-90s her rank was recognized as a separate species by Dr. Mark W. Skinner and Bruce A. Sorrie, their first description was in 2002.
Your name pyrophilum (Latin: fire- loving) comes from their preference for regular forest fires affected habitats.
Because of their rarity and the threat of habitat destruction (especially construction ) has been proposed at the same time with their description for full protection status the plant.
Early 2006 were taken from artificial propagation in the sale of about 250 plants, since ever the plant in culture, as all but were clonally propagated and are self-sterile, survival is not assured in culture.
Swell
- Mark W. Skinner, Bruce A. Sorrie: Conservation and Ecology of Lilium pyrophilum, a New Species of Liliaceae from the Sandhills region of the Carolinas and Virginia, USA, in: Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature: Vol 12, No. 1, 2002, pp. 94-105.