Aquilegia dumeticola
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Ranunculales |
| Family: | Ranunculaceae |
| Genus: | Aquilegia |
| Species: | A. dumeticola
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Aquilegia dumeticola is a perennial flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to southeastern Europe.[1]
Description
[edit]Aquilegia dumeticola is a perennial herbaceous plant growing to 70 cm (28 in) in height.[2] It forms clusters with erect, glandular-pubescent stems. The leaves are light green, biternate, and have rounded wedge- or fan-shaped leaflets. The plant produces pale violet flowers with narrow, pointed sepals 25 mm (1 in) in length and 12 mm (0.5 in) wide, and petals with a rounded nectar spur. The stamens protrude past the petals.[3]
Taxonomy
[edit]The species was formally described by the French botanist Alexis Jordan in 1861, from a specimen collected in Corsica by D. Revelière.[3] Jordan had a reputation for differentiating species too finely,[4] and some authorities consider A. dumeticola to be a subspecies of Aquilegia vulgaris.[5]
It belongs to a clade containing most of the European columbine species, which appear to have diverged from their closest relatives in Asia in the early Pleistocene, a little over 2 million years ago.[6]
Etymology
[edit]The specific epithet dumeticola means "inhabiting thickets", from Latin dumetum "thicket" and -cola "inhabiting", referring to the plant's habitat.[7]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]Aquilegia dumeticola is native to Italy, Greece, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro, and possibly also Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Kosovo. It has been introduced to Corsica.[8] In Italy it is native to almost all the mainland apart from the far north, and is not found in Sardinia or Sicily.[9] It grows in scrub and forest habitats.[2]
Conservation
[edit]As of December 2024[update], the species has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List.[10]
Ecology
[edit]Aquilegia dumeticola flowers from April to June.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Aquilegia dumeticola Jord". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ a b c "Aquilegia dumeticola". FloraVeg.EU. Vegetation Science Group and European Vegetation Survey. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ a b Jordan, Alexis (1861). "Diagnoses D'Espèces Nouvelles ou Méconnues pour Servir de Matériaux à Une Flore de France Réformée" [Diagnoses of New or Little-known Species to Serve as Materials for a Reformed Flora of France]. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. new series (in French). 7: 454–455. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ Planchon, J.-E. (15 September 1874). "Le Morcellement de l'espèce en botanique" [The Fragmentation of Species in Botany]. Revue des Deux Mondes (in French). 5 (2): 389–416. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ "Aquilegia vulgaris L." World Flora Online. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ Fior, Simone; Li, Mingai; Oxelman, Bengt; Viola, Roberto; Hodges, Scott A.; Ometto, Lino; Varotto, Claudio (2013). "Spatiotemporal reconstruction of the Aquilegia rapid radiation through next-generation sequencing of rapidly evolving cpDNA regions". New Phytologist. 198 (2): 579–592. doi:10.1111/nph.12163. PMID 23379348.
- ^ Hyde, Mark; Wursten, Bart; Ballings, Petra; Coates Palgrave, Meg. "Triaspis dumeticola Launert". Flora of Zimbabwe. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ "Aquilegia dumeticola". EuroPlusMed. European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ "Aquilegia dumeticola Jord". Portale della Flora d'Italia. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ "Aquilegia - genus". IUCN Red List. 2024. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
External links
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Media related to Aquilegia dumeticola at Wikimedia Commons
