Cyclamen alpinum
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Kingdom: | Plantae
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(unranked): | Angiosperms
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Subgenus: | Gyrophoebe
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Series: | Pubipedia
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Binomial name | |
Cyclamen alpinum Dammann ex. Springer
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Cyclamen alpinum (= Cyclamen trochopteranthum) is a perennial growing from a tuber, native to pine, juniper, sweetgum, or cedar woodland at 350–1,500 m (1,150–4,920 ft) above sea level in an area of southwestern Turkey, northwest of Antalya, isolated from other species of the Cyclamen coum group.
Name[]
The alternate species name trochopteranthum comes from Greek trochós "wheel" and pterón "feather", "wing", probably meaning "propeller" and ánthos "flower".[1]
The scientific name Cyclamen alpinum has been applied to three other species as well: Cyclamen coum, Cyclamen cilicium, and Cyclamen intaminatum (as a variety of C. cilicium).
Description[]
Leaves are oval to round, green and often variegated with silver above (unlike the similar species Cyclamen parviflorum, which is entirely green) and red-purple below.
Flowers have 5 petals, pale rose-pink to pink-carmine or white with a dark magenta spot at the nose, spreading rather than fully upswept and often twisted like the blades of a propeller, as in Cyclamen parviflorum var. subalpinum.
Forms[]
Cyclamen alpinum forma leucanthum (= Cyclamen alpinum forma album) has white petals.
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- Cyclamen Society — 1997 expedition (Cyclamen trochopteranthum)
- Paghat's Garden (Cyclamen trochopteranthum)
- Pacific Bulb Society (Cyclamen trochopteranthum)
- Mark Griffiths Inspiring Plants.org (Cyclamen alpinum)
- "Cyclamen alpinum". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
- photos — wild plants
- photos — Jearrard's Herbal
- photo — TrekNature
- photo — South Wales Alpine Garden Society Show
- Cyclamen