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Astrantia pontica, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae. It has long reddish (or white) flowers.
Description edit
It is very similar in form to Astrantia major
Fruits 5 - 6 mm long. (with calyx teeth), 2 - 3.5 mm wide., cylindrical in outline, narrowed towards the base. There is no carpophorus. The mericarps are almost round in cross section, with approximately equal ribs, covered with bubble-like swollen, blunt and sharp scales.[3][4]
Name Status RHS Accepted name [5]
Plant range Caucasus[5]
[6] in the western part of caucasus
a pontica coenoses occupy scress and cobble substratum in limestone mountain ranges of colchis (Abkhazeti)
Aphid Myzus ornatus uses A. pontica as a host plant.[7]
Taxonomy edit
The specific epithet pontica, refers to the Latin term for Pontus, a city of the Black Sea.[8]
Plant specimens were found on Mt "Monid Iyschkha" in the Abkhazia region, within South Caucasus in 1893,[9] and in 1894 by Nikolai Albov (recorded as N. Alboff).[10] Then A. pontica was originally described and published by the Russian botanist Nikolai Albov in 'Prodromus Florae Colchicae' (Prodr. Fl. Colchic.)[1] on page 99 in 1895.[2] It was also published in Bull. Herb. Boiss. Vol.3 on page 521 in 1895.[11]
Distribution and habitat edit
It is native to the Caucasus region in Europe,[11] or Transcaucasia region in Asia.[2]
Range edit
It is found in Adygea within the Lagonaki Highlands. It is a relict with restricted range; similar to Woronowia speciosa, Campanula autraniana and Ranunculus helenae.[13]
Habitat edit
Cultivation edit
References edit
- ^ a b "Astrantia pontica Albov". www.worldfloraonline.org. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ a b c "Astrantia pontica Albov | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Astrantia pontica Albov (Астранция понтийская, Apiaceae)". botany-collection.bio.msu.ru. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ Pimenov M.G., Ostroumova T.A. Umbelliferae (Umbelliferae) of Russia. M., Partnership of Scientific Publications KMK, 2012. - 484 p.
- ^ a b "Astrantia pontica". rhs.org.uk. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ By George Nakhutsrishvili {{google books|CqJ2NnGEtikC|The Vegetation of Georgia (South Caucasus)|page=134
- ^ R. L. Blackman and Victor F. Eastop Aphids on the World's Herbaceous Plants and Shrubs, 2 Volume Set (2006), p. 147, at Google Books
- ^ Archibald William Smith A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins, p. 280, at Google Books
- ^ "Spécimen - type Astrantia pontica Albov". science.mnhn.fr. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Type of Astrantia pontica Albov [family APIACEAE] on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ a b "Astrantia pontica". www.ipni.org. International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ A. A. Kolakovskiĭ Flora Abkhazii: Magnoliophyta, Magnoliatae: Solanaceae (1980), p. 358, at Google Books
- ^ Murat K. Bedanokov The Republic of Adygea Environment (2020), p. 611, at Google Books
- ^ "Euxine-Colchic Endemic Plants". Retrieved 23 May 2021.
Other sources edit
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External links edit
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