Small-flowered currant ( lat. Ribes pauciflorum ) is a shrub, a species of plants of the genus Currant ( Ribes ) of the gooseberry family ( Grossulariaceae ).
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Content
- 1 Area
- 2 Botanical Description
- 3 Application
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
Range
It grows in Eastern Siberia and the Far East , as well as in Northeast China and Mongolia in deciduous and mixed forests, and is often found in forest edges and places where there were forest fires [2] [3] .
Botanical Description
Deciduous shrub up to 1.5 meters high, provides abundant root shoots. Shoots are thin, yellowish-gray, with thick pubescence.
Leaves are about 7 cm long, 3-5 lobed, light green. The blades are triangular, blunt, medium larger than the lateral ones, with blunt or round teeth on the edges. The upper side of the leaf blade is bare; the lower side is pubescent.
The flowers are bisexual, yellowish, with densely pubescent pedicels , collected 3-12 pieces in short racemose inflorescences. Hypanthium is smooth, swollen at the base, narrowed closer to the pharynx.
Fruits - aromatic edible berries, large (up to 12 mm in diameter), spherical, black. Ripen in July - August.
Application
The berries of low-flowered currant are used by the local population in areas of fresh growth and for harvesting for the winter.
This species is also used in breeding due to winter hardiness, disease resistance, and good transportability of berries [3] [4] .
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 .
- ↑ Zhukovsky P. M. Cultivated plants and their relatives. - 3rd edition, revised. and add. - L .: Kolos Publishing House, 1971. - S. 515.
- ↑ 1 2 Trees, Shrubs, and Vines: A Reference Guide / N. B. Grozdova, V. I. Nekrasov, D. A. Globa-Mikhailenko. Ed. Dr. biol. Sciences V.I. Nekrasova. - M .: Lesn. industry, 1986. - S. 183. - 349 p.
- ↑ Article about currants on www.greeninfo.ru
Literature
- Voroshilov V.N. Key to plants of the Soviet Far East. - M .: Nauka, 1982. - S. 334.
- Grubov V.I. Key to vascular plants of Mongolia (with atlas). - L .: Nauka, 1982. - S. 137.