Wulfenia

Carinthian Wulfenie ( wulfenia carinthiaca )

The Wulfenien ( wulfenia ) are a genus of flowering plants in the family of Plantain Family. They are after the discoverer of the type species, Franz Xaver Freiherr von Wulfen, named.

Features

The representatives are perennial rosette plants. Its leaves are undivided and AC or base of the plant.

The inflorescence is a raceme that arises laterally. The main axis continues to grow vegetatively. The cup is evenly fünfzipflig. The crown is two-lipped, the corolla tube is longer than wide. There are two stamens, whose filaments are almost completely fused with the corolla tube. The scar is capitate and emarginate.

The fruits are vielsamige capsules which open with four flaps.

Systematics and distribution

Within the Plantaginaceae the genus wulfenia is placed in the tribe Veroniceae.

It consists of three species, occurring in the Himalayas after the species in its own genus, Wulfeniopsis (two species) and Kashmiria ( sort of) are provided. Therefore include wulfenia the following ways:

• Wulfenia baldaccii sword; Area Parun ( Prokletija Mountains, northern Albania )
• Carinthian Wulfenie ( wulfenia carinthiaca Jacq. ) In Prokletija Mountains ( Balkan ) and in the Carnic Alps ( Austria / Italy)
• Wulfenia orientalis Boiss. in Amanus mountains north of Antakya.

The genus is known since the Tertiary. Your site is very disjoint and is interpreted as a remnant of a once much larger spread in Southwest Asia and southeastern Europe.

Documents

• Siegmund Seybold (ed.): Schmeil Fitschen - interactive ( CD -Rom ), Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2001/2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6