Lilia chalcedony ( Latin: Lílium chalcedónicum ) is a species of monocotyledonous flowering plants that is part of the Liliaceae family. Included in the subgenus Martagon of the genus Lilium ( Lilium ).
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Title
Lilium chalcedony was described by Carl Linnaeus in the book Species plantarum in 1753 , the conditional publication date of which is taken as the starting point of the botanical nomenclature . Earlier, in 1629 , John Parkinson described this plant under the name Lilium rubrum Byzantinum, five Martagon Constantinopolitanum .
Botanical Description
Perennial herb , reaching 0.6-1.2 m in height. The stalk is hard, green, with a purple tint, covered with whitish felt pubescence. The bulb is large, oblong, lilac, acutifoliate.
The leaves are numerous, sessile, linear-lanceolate, in the lower part of the plant up to 15 cm long, bracts are shorter.
Flowers with a smell, up to 10 cm in diameter, hanging, collected 3-8 or more in loose racemose inflorescences . Perianth lobes are thick, strongly bending backward, bright red-orange, warty at the base, sometimes covered with purple spots. Stamens are red, with a bright red duster.
The fruit is an egg-shaped capsule .
Distribution and use
Chalcedony lily in the wild grows in Greece and on the coast of the Ionian Islands , as well as in Asia Minor .
Several garden forms of chalcedony lily are known. Among them is a rare species of maculátum (also known as excélsum ), larger, with single spotted flowers. In május, the flowers are larger, in graécum , on the contrary, are smaller. Heldréichii blooms a few weeks earlier than the type variety.
Classification
Taxonomy
The species Lilia chalcedony is a member of the genus Lilia ( Lilium ) of the Liliaceae family of the Liliales order.
| 9 more families (according to APG III System ) | more than 110 species | ||||||||||||
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| Department of Flowering, or Angiosperms | Lily family | view Lily chalcedony | |||||||||||
| another 58 orders of flowering plants (according to APG III System ) | 16 more births | ||||||||||||
Synonyms
- Lilium byzantinum Duch. , 1871
- Lilium carniolicum Heldr. ex Freyn , 1880, nom. illeg.
- Lilium chalcedonicum subsp. heldreichii (Freyn) K.Richt. , 1890
- Lilium heldreichii Freyn, 1880
- Lilium miniatum Salisb. , 1796, nom. illeg.
Notes
- ↑ 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 .
Literature
- Bailey, LH The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. - New York, 1919. - Vol. IV. - P. 1874.
- Weathers, J. A Practical Guide to Garden Plants. - London, 1901. - P. 847. - 1191 p.