Phyteuma

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Phyteuma
Phyteuma globulariifolium.jpg
Phyteuma globulariifolium
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Subfamily:
Genus: Phyteuma
L.
Synonyms[1]

Rapunculus Mill.

Phyteuma vagneri in Rodnei Mountains

Phyteuma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae, native to Europe and Morocco.[1][2][3]

The common name is rampion, a name shared with the related plant Campanula rapunculus. Rampion features prominently in some versions of the fairy tale Rapunzel. In the version collected by the Brothers Grimm, it is said that "rapunzel" is the name given to a local variety of rampion.

The species are herbaceous perennial plants, growing to 5–90 cm tall. The leaves are alternate, petiolate, and vary in shape on a single plant, with larger, broader leaves at the base of the stem and smaller, narrower leaves higher up; the leaf margin is serrated. The flowers are produced in dense erect panicles, each flower with a narrow, deeply five-lobed corolla, 1–2 cm or more long), mostly purple, sometimes pale blue, white or pink. The fruit is a capsule containing numerous small seeds.

Species[]

  • - Germany, Czech Republic (P. nigrum × P. spicatum)
  • - Alps
  • - Morocco, Spain, France, Italy
  • - Austria, Balkans
  • - French and Italian Alps
  • - France
  • - Pyrenees, Alps
  • Switzerland, northern Italy
  • - Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria
  • - France, Italy
  • Murr - Austrian Alps (P. betonicifolium × P. ovatum)
  • - France, Italy
  • - Black rampion - France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria
  • - Austrian Alps (P. confusum × P. globulariifolium)
  • Phyteuma orbiculare - Round-headed rampion - most of Europe except Ireland, Scandinavia, Greece, Bulgaria
  • - Czech Republic (P. nigrum × P. orbiculare)
  • Phyteuma ovatum - Pyrenees, Alps
  • - Slovenia, Austria, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  • Sennen - French Pyrenees (P. ovatum × P. spicatum)
  • - French Pyrenees
  • Phyteuma scheuchzeri - Alps; naturalised in Great Britain
  • Vill. - Alps
  • Viv. - Corsica
  • Phyteuma sieberi - Alps
  • Phyteuma spicatum - Spiked rampion - most of Europe
  • - Carpathians of Romania and Ukraine
  • - Carpathians of Romania and Ukraine

References[]

  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Lammers, T.G. (2007). World checklist and bibliography of Campanulaceae: 1-675. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  3. ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Phyteuma
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