Mazus

Mazus pumilus

Mazus is an East Asian plant genus. The genus was traditionally reckoned / formerly to the family of figwort family ( Scrophulariaceae ). In the current system, which is based on Gene sequences belongs to the genus but in the Phrymaceae family ( APWebsite ).

Description

It is relatively small, one-to perennial herbaceous plants that can grow erect to decumbent and roots at the leaf nodes.

The lower leaves are in a rosette or whorl - or opposite, the upper alternate in many species. The leaves are slowly narrowing in the base of the leaf and the leaf stalks are winged.

The flowers are in terminal and usually einseitswendigen racemose inflorescences. The hermaphrodite, zygomorphic flowers are usually fünfzählig. The green calyx is funnel - to bell-shaped and usually deeply divided into five sepals. The petals are a corolla tube ( they can to be bell-shaped Roehrig ) overgrown. The lower lip of the corolla is three-lobed and spread flat forward or down. The two lateral lobes are usually much larger than the middle lobe. About the middle lobe there are two elongated, longitudinally -lying, often color contrasted bulges. The upper lip is usually much shorter than the lower lip. It is bilobed, the two lobes are short and narrow lanceolate in most species, and the upper lip is narrowed even before the start of the cloth. Most four stamens are formed. The upper permanent ovary usually consists of two carpels, the scar is bilobed. Are formed capsule fruits that contain tiny seeds.

Distribution and habitat requirements

The genus occurs in Central and South Asia and Australia before ( to the north as far as Japan and Russia, south to New Zealand, and westward to India ).

Mazus pumilus and Mazus miquelii are naturalized in some places in North America.

The different types inhabit very different habitats such as roadsides, rock on the seashore or mountain pastures. However, most species occur in moist areas of the plains or in mountainous regions.

Types (selection)

The genus Mazus consists of approximately 30 to 35 species:

  • Mazus alpinus Masam.
  • Mazus caducifer Hance
  • Mazus celsioides Hand. - Mazz.
  • Mazus fauriei Bonati
  • Mazus fukienensis Tsoong
  • Mazus gracilis Hemsl.
  • Mazus henryi Tsoong
  • Mazus humilis Hand. - Mazz.
  • Mazus kweichowensis Tsoong & H. P. Yang
  • Mazus lanceifolius Hemsl.
  • Mazus lecomtei Bonati
  • Mazus longipes Bonati
  • Mazus miquelii Makino, a species from the eastern China and Japan, which is naturalized in eastern North America
  • Mazus oliganthus H.L. Li
  • Mazus omeiensis H.L. Li
  • Mazus procumbens Hemsl.
  • Mazus pulchellus Hemsl.
  • Mazus pumilus ( Burm. f ) Steenis ( Syn: .. Lindernia japonica Thunb Lobelia pumila Burm f, Mazus japonicus ( Thunb. ) Kuntze ), a species that spread from the temperate zone to the tropics of Asia and North America is naturalized
  • Mazus radicans Cheeseman, Origin: New Zealand is sometimes offered as an ornamental plant
  • Lippenmäulchen ( Mazus reptans NE Br ), a creeping type from the Himalayas, which is also sometimes used for its lavender, on the Unterlippenausbeulungen white and yellow dotted flowers as ornamental plant.
  • Mazus rockii H.L. Li
  • Mazus Saltuarius Hand. - Mazz.
  • Mazus solanifolius Tsoong & H. P. Yang
  • Mazus spicatus Vaniot
  • Mazus stachydifolius ( Turcz. ) Maxim.
  • Mazus surculosus D. Don
  • Mazus tainanensis C.X. Xie
  • Mazus xiuningensis X.H. Guo & X.L. Liu

Swell

  • The genus in the Flora of China.
  • The genus in the Flora of Missouri.
  • Cheers Gordon (ed.): Botanica. . Random House Australia 2003 German edition: Tandem Verlag GmbH, 2003, ISBN 3-8331-1600-5.
  • Walter Erhardt et al: The big walleye. Encyclopedia of plant names. Volume 2 Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
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