Aronnik Oriental ( Latin Arum orientale ) is a perennial tuberous herbaceous plant, a species of the genus Aronnik ( Arum ) of the Aroidae family ( Araceae ).
| Aronnik East |
General view of a flowering plant |
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| Grade: | Monocotyledonous [1] |
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| International scientific name |
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Arum orientale M. Bieb. , 1808 |
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Content
Tuberous plant with a height of (12) 20-40 cm. The tuber is roundly flattened, in the middle with a recess, from which leaves and peduncle come out.
Root leaves , on petioles , equal in length to the plate or longer, up to 25 cm long, partially spotted [2] ; the plate is wide-heart-lanceate with a back curved lateral lobes shorter than the pointed middle lobe, up to 7 cm long; lateral lobes up to 4.5 cm long. The leaves at the base are covered with scaly sheaths of the outer scaly leaves.
Peduncle twice as long as leaf petioles [2] . The cover is ovoid or elliptical, wide, covers the cob below, up to 10 cm long, with a greenish-white tube and a dark brown-purple limb. The appendage of the cob is dark purple. It blooms in Moldova in April-May, in the Caucasus - in May-June.
It occurs from the east of Central Europe to the Western Caucasus : Austria , Hungary , Poland , Czechoslovakia , Albania , Bulgaria , Romania , Yugoslavia , Crimea [2] , south-west of Ukraine , the Caucasus , Syria , Iran [3] . In the Caucasus, it grows from the Kuban to the middle mountain zone. In Moldova it is found in the floodplain of the Prut , Codri , and the right-bank Transnistria .
It grows in shady hornbeam and beech-oak forests , singly or scattered.
The plant is poisonous.
- β For the conventionality of indicating the class of monocotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Monocotyledonous article .
- β 1 2 3 Dobrochaeva D.N., Kotov M.I., Prokudin Yu.M. et al. Key to higher plants of Ukraine . - Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 1987 .-- S. 468. - 548 p.
- β According to Royal Kew Botanical Gardens, UK. See the links section.
- Arum orientale at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens database, United Kingdom (Retrieved May 21, 2012)
