Small mountaineer ( LatinPersicária mínor ) is a herbaceous plant , a species of the genus Persicaria of the family Buckwheat ( Polygonaceae ).
Highlander small
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryotes
Kingdom:
Plants
Kingdom :
Green plants
Department:
Flowering
Grade:
Dicotyledonous[1]
Order :
CaryophyllanaeTakht., 1967
Order:
Cloves
Family:
Buckwheat
Subfamily :
Buckwheat
Tribe :
Persicarieae
Gender:
Peach
View:
Highlander small
International scientific name
Persicaria minor( Huds. ) Opiz , 1852
Synonyms
Polygonum minusHuds., 1762
An ordinary plant in Eurasia with narrow erect spike-like brushes of small pink or white flowers.
Botanical Description
Botanical illustration from the book of A. DietrichFlora regni Borussici , 1833-1844
An annual plant with a lodging or rising stem up to 40-50 cm long, often branched from the base, almost bare, smooth, green or reddish. Leaves on short petioles, linear-lanceolate to linear, 2.5-8 cm long and 3-9 mm wide, glabrous, sometimes with pressed hairs along the edge and veins. The bell is light brown, along the edge with cilia 2-3 mm long.
Flowers are collected in loose narrow spiky brushes , erect, sometimes slightly drooping, pedicels without glands. Perianth 2-2.5 mm long, without glands, pink or purplish red, rarely white. Stamens are usually in the number 5.
The nutlet is 1.5-2 mm long and 1-1.3 mm wide, convex on both sides, rarely almost trihedral, black or black-brown.
Distribution
It occurs in various wet places along the roads, along the banks of streams, on the shallows, along the ditches and outskirts of the marshes. Widespread throughout temperate Eurasia.
↑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
Asenov Eve.Genus 236 (5).Piperice - Persicaria Mill.// Flora on N R Bulgaria.- Sofia, 1966. - T. III.- S. 240-243.- 637 p.
Gubanov I.A. et al.456. Polygonum minus Huds.[ Persicaria minor (Huds.) Opiz] - Highlander minor // Illustrated identifier of plants of Central Russia.In 3 t .- M .: T-in scientific.ed.KMK, Institute of Technology.ISS., 2003. - T. 2. Angiosperms (dicotyledonous: dicotyledonous).- S. 54. - ISBN 9-87317-128-9 .
Komarov V.L.Rod 394. Highlander - Polygonum L. // Flora of the USSR : in 30 tons / chap.ed.V.L. Komarov .- M .;L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1936. - T. 5 / ed.volumes V. L. Komarov.- S. 652-655.- 762, XXVI p.- 5175 copies.
