Scented woodpecker ( lat.Aspérula graveólens ) - a perennial shrub , a species of the genus Ashenus ( Asperula ) of the family Marenovye ( Rubiaceae ).
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Content
- 1 Ecology and distribution
- 2 Botanical Description
- 3 Meaning and application
- 4 Classification
- 4.1 Representatives
- 4.2 Taxonomic position
- 5 notes
- 6 Literature
Ecology and distribution
It is found in the river basins of the Don , Dnieper and Volga .
It grows in the river sands.
Botanical Description
A shrub with more or less developed infertile shoots , sometimes forming turfs. Flower-bearing stems oblique, 10-35 cm high, thick, rather densely leafy.
The lower leaves are from oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 2-5 mm long, about 1 mm wide. The middle stem leaves are narrowly linear-awl-shaped, spiky, with the edges turned on the lower side; bracts oblong-lanceolate, 1.5-3 mm long, about 0.5 mm wide, smooth.
Panicled inflorescence . Flowers on its final branches are two or three, rarely solitary, almost sessile or on legs up to 1-1.5 mm long; corolla 3.5-4.5 mm long, funnel - shaped, with oblong cavity bent outward, almost equal to a tube.
Fruits 3-4 mm long, densely covered with dull or dull scales.
It blooms in June - August. The fruits ripen in August - September.
Meaning and Application
The aerial part of the plant contains tannins , bitterness , resins , coumarins , essential oil , ascorbic acid , and fatty oil .
The plant has a pleasant spicy-gingerbread smell, spicy and bitter taste, used for flavoring fruits, flavoring tobacco and clothing. It is used in industry in the production and aromatization of alcoholic beverages , wine . The leaves of woodruff are usually added to the culinary products as a whole, and not in finely chopped form. Slightly withered leaves are only briefly dipped in a dish. After this procedure, the taste of fruit salads , sweet soups and lemonade becomes thinner.
The plant is popular in folk medicine - it was used inside as a sedative , for insomnia , tachycardia , as a diaphoretic , bile - and diuretic , for urolithiasis , skin diseases associated with metabolic disorders, as astringent and fastening; externally - for washing, lotions , compresses for skin diseases, ulcers and wounds .
An overdose should not be allowed when ingested, since the plant has toxic properties.
Classification
Representatives
Within the species, a number of subspecies are distinguished: [2]
- Asperula graveolens subsp. graveolens
- Asperula graveolens subsp. danilewskiana ( Basiner ) Pjatunina
- Asperula graveolens subsp. leiograveolens ( Popov & Chrshan. ) Pjatunina
Taxonomic position
The scented scented species is part of the genus Scarlet ( Asperula ) of the Marene family ( Rubiaceae ) of the order Gentian - flowered ( Gentianales ).
| 4 more families (according to APG II System ) | over 200 species | ||||||||||||
| order Gentian | clan Yashennik | ||||||||||||
| Department of Flowering, or Angiosperms | Marenov family | Oasis scented | |||||||||||
| 44 more order flowering plants (according to APG II System ) | about 600 more births | ||||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ According to the EOL website (see plant card).
Literature
- Dudchenko L.G., Koziakov A.S., Krivenko V.V. Spicy-aromatic and spicy-flavoring plants: Reference book / Otv. ed. K. M. Sytnik. - K .: Naukova Dumka , 1989 .-- 304 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-12-000483-0 .
- Flora of the USSR : in 30 tons / started at hand. and under chap. ed. V. L. Komarova . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1958. - T. 23 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin . - S. 262. - 776 p. - 2300 copies.