Woodland ( Latin Mercuriális ) is a genus of annual or perennial herbaceous plants of the family Euphorbiaceae ( Euphorbiaceae ).
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Representatives of the genus grow in the Mediterranean , as well as the temperate and subtropical regions of Eurasia .
There are 3 species in Russia - in the European part and in the Caucasus , including the Perennial perennial ( Mercurialis perennis ), which can be seen almost everywhere in Russian forests.
Content
Botanical Description
Unlike most genera of the family Euphorbiaceae, the coppice does not have milky juice .
These are low herbaceous plants with opposite leaves .
The flowers are dioecious , rarely monoecious , inconspicuous, small, greenish, without petals. Perianth simple, tripartite. Stamen flowers in interrupted ears , with a spherical tripartite cup , without petals , with 8–20 (usually 8–12) stamens, free threads; pistillate - 1-2 in the axils of the bract or in the small-flowered racemose or spike-shaped inflorescence, with 3 tiled sepals , with 2 filiform glands, alternating with carpels . The ovary is usually two-pronged, in each nest there is one ovule . Pollinated mainly by the wind.
Fractional fruits , with two single-seed lobes.
All parts of the plant are poisonous.
Classification
Taxonomy
The genus Woodworm is included in the tribe Acalypheae of the subfamily Acalyphoideae of the family Euphorbiaceae ( Euphorbiaceae ) of the order Malpighiales ( Malpighiales ).
| 3 more subfamilies | 26 more births | ||||||||||||||
| Euphorbiaceae family | tribe Acalypheae | ||||||||||||||
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| order Malpigh | subfamily Acalyphoideae | genus Woodland | |||||||||||||
| 36 more families (according to APG II System ) | 15 more tribes | ||||||||||||||
Views
The genus has, according to various classifications, 8-11 species . The list is based on the site of the Kew Botanical Gardens site [2] [3]
- Mercurialis annua L. - Annual Woodland
- Mercurialis canariensis Obbard & SA Harris
- Mercurialis corsica Coss. & Kralik
- Mercurialis elliptica Lam.
- Mercurialis huetii hanry
- Mercurialis leiocarpa Siebold & Zucc.
- Mercurialis × longifolia Lam.
- Mercurialis ovata Sternb. & Hoppe - Ovoid Woodland
- Mercurialis × paxii Graebn.
- Mercurialis perennis L. - Perennial perennial
- Mercurialis reverchonii Rouy
- Mercurialis tomentosa L.
Woodland perennial ( Mercurialis perennis )
Mercurialis ambigua
Annual Woodland ( Mercurialis annua )
Mercurialis ovata
Interesting fact
One year old woodland ( Mercurialis annua ) along with spinach was one of the first objects in the experiments of Camerius in 1691 to prove the presence of sexual functions in plants.
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of indicating 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 .
- ↑ Complete List of Names from World Checklist Project of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. . Date of treatment May 21, 2010. Archived April 25, 2012.
- ↑ Russian names are given according to the book “Flora of the USSR” (see section Literature ).
Literature
- Plant life. In 6 t. / Ch. ed. Corr. USSR Academy of Sciences, prof. Al A. Fedorov. - M .: Education, 1981. - T. 5. Part 2. Flowering plants / Under. ed. A. L. Takhtadzhyana. - S. 139.
- Genus 854. Woodland - Mercurialis // Flora of the USSR : 30 tons / started at hand. and under chap. ed. V. L. Komarova . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1949. - T. 14 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin , E.G. Bobrov . - S. 295-298. - 790 s. - 4000 copies.
Links
- Woodland & encid = bse & stpar3 = 1.1 - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
- Woodland in the Biological Encyclopedic Dictionary (Retrieved May 16, 2010)