Ruscus

Butcher's broom ( Ruscus aculeatus )

Mice mandrels ( Ruscus ) are a genus of asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ) with six species.

Description

The mice spines make erect dioecious shrubs. The actual leaves are greatly reduced and trockenhäutig, photosynthesis take over sheet-like, leathery, pointed phylloclades that arise from the axils of the leaves. The phylloclades are parallel-veined, durable and long - round to oblong- lanceolate or elliptic.

The one to six green white flowers are centered on the center rib of the top or bottom of the phylloclades and grow from the axils of bracts. The bloom are non grow, the three inner are narrower than the outer. The male flowers have three dust bag. The gynoecium is surrounded by a Staminodialröhre, the stylus is short, as is the scar. The ovaries are stalked and dreifächrig, there are two ovules in each subject.

The fruits are red berries and contain one or two seeds.

Dissemination

The mice mandrels can be found from Macaronesia across Western Europe, the Mediterranean region and the Caucasus to Iran.

System

The genus contains 6 species (at times they have been placed in the genus Danae ):

• Butcher's broom ( Ruscus aculeatus L.), arrives in Europe in the Mediterranean prior to the British Isles, Switzerland, Hungary, the Azores, North Africa and Western Asia
• Ruscus colchicus Yeo, Origin: Caucasus, Turkey
• Hader sheet ( Ruscus hypoglossum L.), comes in northwestern Italy, Austria, Central Eastern Europe, in Romania, on the Balkan Peninsula, the Crimea and in Turkey
• West Mediterranean butcher's broom ( Ruscus hypophyllum L.), Origin: North West Africa, southern Spain, France and Sicily
• Ruscus Hyrcanus Voronov, Origin: Caucasus, Iran
• Ruscus streptophyllus Yeo, Origin: Madeira

Evidence

• EJ Ecker: Flora of West Pakistan 106: Ruscaceae. Stewart Herbarium, Rawalpindi 1976, p 4 online.
• Camillo Karl Schneider: Illustrated Handbook of Hardwood customer. Characteristic of the Central European domestic and planted outdoors angiosperm wood types and shapes with exclusion of Bambuseen and cacti., Volume 2, Gustav Fischer, Jena 1912, pp. 861, digitized.
• Walter Erhardt, Erich Götz, Nils Boedeker, Siegmund Seybold: The big walleye. Encyclopedia of plant names. Band. 2 species and varieties. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7.
• Peter Frederick Yeo: Ruscus L. In: . TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb ( eds.): Flora Europaea. Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae ( Monocotyledones ), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980, ISBN 0 - 521-20108 -X, page 73 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).