Scabiosa
Gloss Scabious ( Scabiosa lucida )
The Marsh ( Scabiosa ) are a genus of the subfamily of the teasel family ( Dipsacoideae ) with about 100 species in Europe, Asia and East Africa.
Features
The Marsh are annual or perennial herbaceous plants. They rarely become woody at the base. The stems are not edged and have no spines. The leaves are opposite, pinnate undivided up. Frequently they are in non-flowering rosettes.
The flowers are in large, long -stalked heads, which are surrounded by one to three rows of bracts. The outer cup is perforated up to three mm high, membranous and indistinct. At the bottom head sitting chaff leaves. The calyx usually carries four to five bristles or teeth. The crown is uneven fünfzipfelig. The ray flowers are actinomorphic.
The fruit is nut -like, cylindrical, seeded indehiscent fruit with eight furrows.
Etymology
With the name of several genera were designated with blue, capitate inflorescences before Linnaeus. The origin and meaning of this name is unclear. It is often derived from the Latin scabies = scabies. The vernacular names Scabious, itch herb come from this use, but only referring to knautia arvensis.
System
The genus Scabiosa was 1753, first published by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum, Volume 1, page 98. A synonym for Scabiosa L. Asterocephalus tin. Sometimes the genus Sixalix Raf. with the kind Sixalix daucoides ( Desf. ) Raf. out next Scabiosa.
The genus Scabiosa consists of about 100 species, of which about 20 occur in Europe. The occurring in Central Europe species are:
- Velvet Pincushion Flower ( Scabiosa atropurpurea L.) cultivated in Central Europe and rarely verwildernd.
- Grey or fragrances Pincushion Flower ( Scabiosa canescens Waldst. & Kit. )
- Pigeon - Scabiosa ( Scabiosa columbaria L.)
- Krainer Pincushion Flower ( Scabiosa hladnikiana host, is also known as a subspecies of Scabiosa cinerea Lapeyr. Ex Lam. Asked. It occurs in the eastern Alps in Slovenia
- Gloss Scabious ( Scabiosa lucida Vill. ), Comes in the mountains of Central and Southern Europe by the Vosges Mountains and the Pyrenees to the Carpathians, the Apennines and the Balkan peninsula
- Yellow Scabiosa ( Scabiosa ochroleuca L.), occurs particularly in Eastern Europe and Central Eastern Europe
- Southern Pincushion Flower ( Scabiosa triandra L.), comes in southern Europe and southern Central Europe
Other types (selection):
- Scabiosa crenata Cyr. Heard but, perhaps in the genus Lomelosia
- Scabiosa japonica Miq.
- Scabiosa micrantha Desf.
- . Scabiosa pulsatilloides Boiss, comes only in Spain in two subspecies: subsp. macropoda (Costa ex Willk. ) Nyman
- Subsp. pulsatilloides
Be expected no longer to Scabiosa but to the genus Lomelosia among others the following types:
- Crete Scabious ( Lomelosia cretica (L.) Greuter & Burdet, formerly Scabiosa cretica L.), is found in Italy, Sicily and the Balearic Islands
- Grass-leaved scabious ( Lomelosia graminifolia (L.) Greuter & Burdet, formerly Scabiosa graminifolia L.), is found in southern Europe
Be expected also no longer Scabiosa but to Pseudoscabiosa the types:
- Pseudoscabiosa limonifolia ( Vahl ) Devesa ( Syn: Scabiosa limonifolia Vahl ), occurs only in Sicily
- Pseudoscabiosa saxatilis ( Cav. ) Devesa ( syn.. Scabiosa saxatilis Cav ), occurs in Spain
- Pseudoscabiosa Grosii ( font cross ) Devesa ( Syn: Scabiosa Grosii font cross ), occurs only in southern Spain