Veronica khorossanica ( lat. Veronica khorossanica ) is a perennial herb , a species of the genus Veronica ( Veronica ) of the family Plantain ( Plantaginaceae ).
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Veronica khorossanica czerniak | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Veronica tripartita Boriss. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dissemination and ecology
The species range covers Iran ( Kopetdag ) and Turkmenistan (Kopetdag). Described from northern Iran.
It grows on gravelly and stony steppe areas of the foothills and in the middle belt of mountains, it is part of the upland- xerophilic groups.
Botanical description
The rhizome is woody, strongly branched. Stems are numerous, densely leafy, ascending, 6-8 cm tall, together with an inflorescence of 6-12 cm, greyish from velvety pubescence.
Leaves linear, sessile, 5–10 mm long (up to 15) mm, 1–1.5 mm wide, wrapped around the edge.
Inflorescences - dense and many-flowered brush , 3–7 cm long, lateral, in the axils of the upper leaves, strong, on peduncles 5–7 cm long. Bracts linear, 1–1.5 mm long. Calyx 3 mm long, four-fold, with linear fractions, not exceeding the box; corolla red, 6–7 mm in diameter, with rounded lobes 3 mm long.
Box 2.5 mm long, 3 mm wide, flattened, round at the apex and barely notched, glandous-pubescent. Seeds oblong, 1.5 mm long.
Blossoms in April - June.
Taxonomy
View Veronica Khorosansky is a member of the Veronica genus of the family Plantain ( Plantaginaceae ) of the order Lamiales .
| 21 more families (according to the APG II System ) | another 300 to 500 species | ||||||||||||
| order Clear colors | genus Veronica | ||||||||||||
| department Flowering, or Angiosperms | family Podzornikovye | view Veronika Horosanskaya | |||||||||||
| another 44 orders of flowering plants (according to the APG II System ) | 90 more genera | ||||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .
Literature
- Flora of the USSR : in 30 tons. / Started by hand. and under ch. ed. V.L. Komarov . - M. L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1955. - V. 22 / ed. volume B. K. Shishkin , E. G. Bobrov . - p. 448-449. - 861 s. - 3000 copies
- Yelenevsky A. G. Systematics and the geography of the Veronique of the USSR and adjacent countries - M .: Science, 1978. - p. 164. - 259 p.