Veronica montivide ( Latin Veronica montioides ) is an annual herbaceous plant, a species of the genus Veronica ( Veronica ) of the family Plantain ( Plantaginaceae ).
| Veronica montiform | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Veronica montioides boiss . | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Distribution and Ecology
The territory of the former USSR : the entire mountainous part of Central Asia (except the Pamirs ), the Lesser Caucasus ; Asia : Turkey , Syria , Iran (northern half), Afghanistan , China (the most western parts of the Dzungaria and Kashgar ), Mongolia (Mogul Altai , the Shami river).
It grows in streams, in shady ravines; from the lower zone to 2500 m above sea level.
Botanical Description
Stems 5-10 cm tall, unbranched or weakly branched, ascending or rising at the base.
The lower leaves are petiolate or narrowed to the base, ovate, 1-15 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, thin, whole-marginal. Upper - sessile, ovoid or elliptical, sometimes semi-semi-encompassing, whole-edge or obscurely dentate.
The brush 6-12 is flowering ; bracts oblong-ovate, shorter than pedicels; pedicels are thin, sticking up, later almost horizontally deflected, longer than bracts. Calyx with widely ovoid or ovoid-elliptic, obtuse lobes, 2 mm long, 1 mm wide, slightly larger than the box; corolla blue, slightly larger than a cup. The ovary at the top is slightly ciliary.
The box is about 3.5 mm long, almost round, slightly compressed laterally. Seeds are numerous, small.
Taxonomy
Species Veronica montiform is included in the genus Veronica ( Veronica ) of the family Plantain ( Plantaginaceae ) of the order Lamiaceae ( Lamiales ).
| another 21 families (according to APG II System ) | another 300 to 500 species | ||||||||||||
| the order is Lamia | clan Veronica | ||||||||||||
| Department of Flowering, or Angiosperms | plantain family | view Veronica montiform | |||||||||||
| 44 more order flowering plants (according to APG II System ) | another 90 births | ||||||||||||
Notes
- β 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 .
Literature
- 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 , 1955. - T. 22 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin , E.G. Bobrov . - S. 478-479. - 861 s. - 3000 copies.
- Elenevsky A.G. Systematics and geography of Veronics of the USSR and adjacent countries . - M .: Nauka, 1978.- S. 123 .-- 259 p.