Bellevalia

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Bellevalia
Bellevalia nivalis kz4.jpg
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Scilloideae
Genus: Bellevalia
Lapeyr. 1808, conserved name, not Scop. 1777 (Verbenaceae) nor Delile Endl. 1836 (Potamogetonaceae)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Strangweja Bertol.
  • Borboya Raf.
  • Foxia Parl.
  • Amphibolis Schott & Kotschy in C.G.T.Kotschy. 1858, illegitimate homonym, not C. Agardh 1822
  • Busbequia Salisb.
  • Rytidolobus Dulac

Bellevalia is a genus of plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.[3] It was first described as a genus in 1808.[4][5]

Wild Bellevalia in Behbahan, Iran
Wild Bellevalia in Behbahan

The approximately 65 species are found from the Mediterranean: Turkey (about 12 species) and Israel (12 species), to central Asia: Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan (two species).

Description[]

Bellevalia species are perennial herbaceous plants. As geophytes, they form bulbs with a membranous sheath ("tunic"). The simple, parallel-veined leaves are basal. Grape-like inflorescences grow terminally on smooth cylindrical flower stems. The numerous flowers are located in the axils of small, membranous bracts. The hermaphroditic flowers are triple. The six identically shaped bracts are one-third to one-half their length and deformed tubular, bell-shaped or funnel-shaped in form. The color of the bracts ranges from white to cream to brown or more rarely from blue to purple. The fruit capsule is triangular in cross section with winged edges. The seeds are more or less spherical, rarely elongated and glossy.

Taxonomy[]

Wild Bellevalia in Behbahan II
Wild Bellevalia in Behbahan

The genus Bellevalia was first described in 1808 by Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse.[6] The genus name honors the French botanist Pierre Richer de Belleval (1564-1632).[7] A synonym for Bellevalia is Strangweja Bertol. The homonym genus Bellevalia Roem. & Schult. is a synonym of the genus Richeria Vahl from the family Phyllanthaceae.

Some species formerly belonged to the genus Hyacinthus. The genus Bellevalia is placed in the tribe Hyacintheae in the subfamily Scilloideae within the family Asparagaceae.

Species[]

According to the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families,[2] there are 65 Bellevalia species:

  1. B.Mathew & Özhatay
  2. Wendelbo
  3. (Baker) Losinsk.
  4. Turrill
  5. (Cirillo) T.Nees
  6. Griseb.
  7. Wendelbo
  8. Wendelbo
  9. Maire & Weiller
  10. Bornm.
  11. Boiss.
  12. Bellevalia desertorum Eig & Feinbrun
  13. Brullo & Miniss.
  14. Pabot & Mouterde
  15. (Guss.) Schult. & Schult.f.
  16. Özhatay & B.Mathew
  17. Feinbrun
  18. Freitag & Wendelbo
  19. Boiss.
  20. Woronow
  21. Bocchieri & Mossa
  22. (Lindl.) Kunth
  23. Feinbrun
  24. Mouterde
  25. Wendelbo
  26. (Bertol.) K.Perss. & Wendelbo
  27. Rech.f.
  28. Feinbrun
  29. K.Perss.
  30. (Miscz.) Wulff.
  31. Post
  32. (Miscz.) Grossh.
  33. Boiss.
  34. Özhatay & Koçak
  35. Pomel
  36. Wendelbo
  37. (K.Koch) Boiss., syns Bellevalia albana Woronow, Bellevalia makuensis Woronow ex Grossh., Bellevalia wilhelmsii (Steven) Woronow
  38. Feinbrun
  39. Wendelbo
  40. Boiss. & Kotschy
  41. (Baker) Wendelbo, syn. Bellevalia latifolia Feinbrun
  42. Feinbrun
  43. Bellevalia paradoxa (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Boiss., syn. Bellevalia pycnantha (K.Koch) Losinsk.
  44. Wendelbo
  45. C.Brullo, Brullo & Pasta
  46. Wendelbo
  47. Bellevalia romana (L.) Sweet
  48. Täckh. & Boulos
  49. Woronow
  50. (Viv.) Kunth
  51. Parsa
  52. Kypriotakis & Tzanoud.
  53. Woronow ex Grossh., syn. Bellevalia sarmatica (Pall. ex Georgi) Woronow
  54. (Raf.) Boiss.
  55. Feinbrun
  56. Turrill
  57. Feinbrun
  58. (Ten.) Kunth
  59. Bornm.
  60. Franch., syn. Bellevalia atroviolacea Regel
  61. Ponert
  62. Feinbrun
  63. Parl.
  64. Maassoumi & Jafari
  65. Feinbrun
Species formerly included[2]

moved to Alrawia Althenia Hyacinthella Leopoldia Muscari Pseudomuscari

  1. B. aleppica -
  2. B. aperta - Muscari armeniacum
  3. B. atchleyi - subsp. atchleyi
  4. B. australis - var. barrandonii
  5. B. azurea - Pseudomuscari azureum
  6. B. bellii -
  7. B. bouriana - Leopoldia comosa
  8. B. calandriniana - Leopoldia comosa
  9. B. caucasica -
  10. B. coelestis -
  11. B. coerulea -
  12. B. comosa - Leopoldia comosa
  13. B. cupaniana - Leopoldia gussonei
  14. B. dalmatica -
  15. B. dichroa -
  16. B. fontanesii -
  17. B. forniculata -
  18. B. fuliginosa -
  19. B. graeca - Leopoldia comosa
  20. B. graminifolia - Leopoldia comosa
  21. B. haynei -
  22. B. heldreichii -
  23. B. hispida -
  24. B. holzmannii - Leopoldia comosa
  25. B. leucophaea -
  26. B. lineata -
  27. B. longipes (Boiss.) Bornm. 1939 not Post 1895 -
  28. B. maritima -
  29. B. maritima subsp. weissii -
  30. B. micrantha -
  31. B. millingenii -
  32. B. monophylla - Muscari latifolium
  33. B. muscarioides - Muscari latifolium
  34. B. nervosa -
  35. B. oxycarpa -
  36. B. pallens -
  37. B. persica -
  38. B. pharmacusana - Leopoldia comosa
  39. B. pinardii - Leopoldia comosa
  40. B. pseudomuscari - Pseudomuscari chalusicum
  41. B. sartoriana - Leopoldia comosa
  42. B. tenuiflora -
  43. B. tenuiflora subsp. constricta - Leopoldia comosa
  44. B. theraea -
  45. B. turkewiczii -
  46. B. weissii -

References[]

  1. ^ Tropicos, search for name Bellevalia
  2. ^ a b c R. Govaerts, B. J. M. Zonneveld, S. A. Zona: World checklist of Asparagaceae. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Search on Bellevalia Access date 8 July 2014
  3. ^ Stevens, P.F., Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: Asparagales: Scilloideae
  4. ^ Lapeyrouse, Philippe Picot de. 1808. Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts 67: 425-427 in French
  5. ^ Tropicos, Bellevalia Lapeyr.
  6. ^ Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse: Bellevalia. Nouveau genre de plante de la famille des Liliacées. In: Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d'Histoire Naturelle. Band 67, Nr. 12, 1808, p. 425–427
  7. ^ Sandro Pignatti (Hrsg.): Flora d'Italia. Vol. 1–3, Edagricole, Bologna 1982 (Nachdruck 2002), ISBN 88-506-2449-2, S. 374 (Band 3).

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