Armeria maritima interior

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Overview

Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Family Plumbaginaceae

Shrublets , shrubs , or herbs. Stems striate or reduced to a caudex . Leaves simple , alternate or basal, sessile or petiolate but petiole usually indistinct from blade ; stipules absent; leaf blade entire or rarely pinnately lobed , with chalk glands on both surfaces. Inflorescences terminal or axillary , unbranched or branched, spicate , spicate-racemose, subcapitate , capitate, or paniculate , arranged into complanate spikes if branched, all composed of 1--10 or more cymules or helicoid cymes; cymules or helicoid cymes usually known as spikelets , 1--5-flowered; bracts 1 at base of each spikelet; bractlets 1 or 2 at base of each flower. Flowers bisexual , actinomorphic , sessile or very shortly pedicellate . Calyx persistent , hypogynous, tubular to funnelform , 5-ribbed, 5-lobed. Corolla hypogynous, petals connate but sometimes only at base, lobes or segments 5 and twisted. Stamens opposite corolla lobes, hypogynous or inserted at corolla base; anthers 2-locular, dehiscing longitudinally. Pistil 1. Ovary superior, 1-locular. Styles 5, free or connate. Stigmas 5. Ovule 1, pendulous from a basal funicle. Capsules usually enclosed within calyx. Seeds 1 per capsule; embryo straight, surrounded by thin starchy endosperm.

About 25 genera and 440 species: worldwide, main diversity in C Asia and Mediterranean region; seven genera and 46 species (11 endemic) in China.[1]

Genus Armeria

Plants herbs, perennial , scapose , acaulescent ; taprooted, rootstocks branched, woody. Leaves in basal rosettes, sessile; blade linear to linear-spatulate [lanceolate], narrowed or straight to base , margins entire. Scapes glabrous or densely pubescent , sometimes rugose , enclosed by tubular leafless sheath at apex. Inflorescences solitary, apical, dense hemispheric heads of scorpioid cymes, each surrounded by involucre of scarious bracts. Pedicels absent or present (short). Flowers monomorphic or dimorphic (in pollen and stigma characteristics) ; calyx 10-ribbed, funnel-shaped; tube usually pubescent on ribs only or all around, rarely glabrous, limbs membranaceous , awned or not; petals slightly connate basally, white to deep purple; filaments adnate to base of corolla; anthers included ; styles 5, free , hairy proximally; stigmas linear, papillate or smooth . Fruits dry, enclosed in persistent calyces, dehiscing transversely. x = 9.

Species ca. 50: North America, s South America, Europe, w Asia (n Siberia), n Africa.

Armeria is known to be taxonomically difficult. Species concepts vary among authors . About 50 species can be recognized according to A. R. Pinto da Silva (1972).[2]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Armeria maritima (Mill.) Willd. Var. interior (Raup) G. H. M. Lawr. • Armeria maritima (Mill.) Willd. Interior (Raup) C. Lefebvre & Vekemans • Armeria Maritima Interior • Statice interior Raup

Notes

Publishing author : Lefebvre & Vekem. Publication : Canad. J. Bot. 73: 1595 1995

Basionym author: (Raup)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Armeria

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 34 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. alliacea (Plantain Thrift) · A. armeria (Armeria) · A. caespitosa 'Alba' (Thrift) · A. Caespitosa 'Sea Pink' (Dwarf Thrift) · A. juniperifolia (Dwarf Thrift) · A. maritima (Common Thrift) · A. maritima californica (California Seapink) · A. maritima interior (Athabasca Thrift) · A. maritima purpurea (Thrift Seapink) · A. maritima sibirica (Sea Pink) · A. maritima 'Alba' (Common Thrift) · A. maritima 'Bloodstone' (Bloodstone Thrift) · A. maritima subsp. californica (California Seapink) · A. maritima 'Compacta' (Compact Sea Pink) · A. maritima 'Cottontail' (Common Thrift) · A. maritima 'Cotton Tail' (Common Thrift) · A. maritima 'Dusseldorf Pride' (Common Thrift) · A. maritima subsp. interior (Interior Seapink) · A. maritima 'Laucheana' (Common Thrift) · A. maritima 'Nifty Thrifty' (Common Thrift) · A. maritima 'Pink Lusitanica' (Common Thrift) · A. maritima 'Pride of Dusseldorf' (Pride of Dusseldorf Sea Pink) · A. maritima 'Rubrifolia' (Common Thrift) · A. maritima subsp. sibirica (Siberian Sea Thrift) · A. maritima 'Six Hills' (Common Thrift) · A. maritima 'Splendens' (Common Thrift) · A. maritima 'Victor Reiter' (Sea Thrift) · A. pseudarmeria (Pinkball Thrift) · A. pseudarmeria 'Bees Hybrids' (Pinkball Thrift) · A. pseudarmeria 'Bees Ruby' (Pinkball Thrift) · A. pseudarmeria 'Joystick Lilac' (Pinkball Thrift) · A. pseudarmeria 'Joystick Red Shades' (Pinkball Thrift) · A. pseudarmeria 'Joystick White' (Pinkball Thrift) · A. setacea (Thrift)

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Further Reading

• Castroviejo, S. et al., eds. 1989–. Flora iberica: plantas vasculares de la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares. (F Iberica)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14) [lists as A. maritima (Mill.) Willd.].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep) [lists as A. maritima (Mill.) Willd.].
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest. (F Pacif NW) [lists as A. maritima (Mill.) Willd.].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard) [lists as A. maritima (Mill.) Willd.].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2) [lists as A. maritima (Mill.) Willd.].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Moore, D. M. 1983. Flora of Tierra del Fuego. (F TFuego) [lists as A. maritima (Mill.) Willd.].
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada) [lists as A. maritima (Mill.) Willd.].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur) [lists as A. maritima (Mill.) Willd.].
• Peng Ze-xiang (as Peng Tse-hsiang) in Li Shu-gang (as Lee Shu-kang), ed. 1987. Plumbaginaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 60(1): 1-47.
• Bernis, F. 1952. Revisión del género Armeria Willd. con especial referencia a los grupos Ibéricos. Anales Inst. Bot. Cavanilles 11(2): 5-287.
• Lawrence, G. H. M. 1947. The genus Armeria in North America. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 37: 751-779.
• Lawrence, G. H. M. 1940. Armerias, native and cultivated. Gentes Herb. 4: 391-418.
• Lefèbvre, C. and X. Vekemans. 1995. A numerical taxonomic study of Armeria maritima (Plumbaginaceae) in North America and Greenland. Canad. J. Bot. 73: 1583-1595.
• Lefèbvre, C. 1974. Population variation and taxonomy in Armeria maritima with special reference to heavy-metal tolerant populations. New Phytol. 73: 209-219.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Species At Risk Act Public Registry, Government of Canada
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (May 04, 2008)

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9316270
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-184301
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13899747
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:985799-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 4226
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDPLU01012
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 167014

Footnotes

1. Tse-Hsiang Pen & Rudolf V. Kamelin "Plumbaginaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 190. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Claude Lefèbvre, Xavier Vekemans "Armeria". in Flora of North America Vol. 5. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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