Moltkia Coerurala — Wikipedia

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The Bluish Moltkia ( Malltuki coore ) is a kind of plants from the Boraginaceae family from Italy.

Malltuki coore Form a small bush, perennial, deciduous and small (less 40 cm).

The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, slightly silky, and carried by ascending angular stems, woody at their base.

The flowers, carried by terminal scorpioid cymes, of blue, some turning on a pink-mauve, are campanulated tubular, in the chalice made up of five sepales two to three times shorter than the corolla, with five petals without hairiness, five stamens exceeding Slightly the corolla, a very largely exsert pistil and carpels with two eggs (fairly general characteristics of the family).

The fruit is made up of four nuts in the shape of nuts, large, oval and wrinkled.

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This species has 2 × n = 14 chromosomes [ first ] .

This species is native to a fairly large area centered on the Caucasus, west of Anatolia in northeast Iran mainly, as well as in northern Syria.

It is a kind of sunny, limestone and dry terrain.

This species has experienced an ornamental use in a rockery garden XIX It is century. It is a bit broadcast in France.

Carl Ludwig von Willdenow describes this plant, collected by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort with the indication: Symphytum East angustifolium flower [ 2 ] , under the name of Sixsma coerulea , the specific epithet referring to the blue color of the flower [ 3 ] . Willdenow, like Tournefort, chose two Latin spelling of the adjective “dark blue” – green, IS, E And coeruleus, a, a – the second. The indexes and the authors share between the two possible spelling of the specific epithet: coerulea (IPNI, Grin, Tropicos, cuvier, M.G. Popov…) blue (Tropicos, MNHN, I.M.Johnston…).

Johann Georg Christian Lehmann moved it in 1817 in the genre Moltkia and in fact the type species of the genus among the first two species which it attaches to it [ 4 ] . In 1821, he published the engravings of these two species [ 5 ] .

In 1953, Ivan Muray Johnston confirmed his classification in the genre Moltkia and place in the section Eumoltkia (Viv.) I.M.Johnston [ 6 ] . He suggests several possible synonymies:

  • Moltkia Potted Cow.
  • Cynoglossum rugosum Sest. Ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Lithospermum rugosum (Sest. Ex Roem. & Schult.) Dc.

Like the genre, it is placed in the tribe of Lithospermeae of the sub-family of Boraginae family of Boraginaceae .

  1. ↑ Seyed Mahmoud Ghaffari – Chromosome studies in some species of Boraginaceae from Iran – Iranian Journal of Botany – Volume 7 n ° 1 – Tehran, 1996 – p. 81-93 Reference on the FAO website
  2. ↑ Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Corollary Institutes of Herbariae in which the plants 1356 Munificence of the Great in the eastern regions observed listed with the categories – Paris, 1703 – p. 7
  3. ↑ Carl Ludwig von Willdenow – Species of plants – Volume 1 – Vienne, 1798 – p. 775
  4. ↑ Johann Georg Christian Lehmann – New writings of the natural research society to Halle – Volume 3 – N ° 2 – Halle, 1817 – p. 5
  5. ↑ Johann Georg Christian Lehmann – Icons and descriptions of new or less known to the racial family of the family asperifoliarum – Hambourg, P 43 Available in Gallica
  6. ↑ Ivan Muray Johnston – Studies in the Boraginaceae – Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University – Volume 73. – Cambridge, 1924 – p. 53
  • Mikhail Grigororevič Popov – Boraginaceae – flower d’urss – Volume 19 – Under the direction of B.K. Shishkin – Leningrad, 1953 – p. 235 (p. 174 of the English translation)
  • Ivan Muray Johnston – Studies in the Boraginaceae, XXV. A revaluation of some genera of the Lithospermae – Journal of the Arnold Arboretum – n° 34 – 1953 – p. 258 et p. 268-275 Downloadable document
  • Alfred Rehder – Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs hardy in the cooler temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere – Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University,1949 – p. 582
  • Frédéric Cuvier – Dictionary of natural sciences, volume 32 – Paris and Strasbourg, 1824 – p. 403

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