Overview
Interesting Facts
Description
Genus Muscari
Herbs perennial
, scapose
, from brown, tunicate
, ovoid
bulbs, with or without offsets
(bulblets). Leaves (1-) 2-7, basal; blade
linear
, sometimes sulcate
, glabrous
, rather fleshy
. Scape terete
. Inflorescences terminally racemose, many-flowered, dense, bracteate
, usually elongating in fruit; distal flowers smaller, sterile
, differing in color, forming a tuft (coma) ; bracts minute. Flowers fragrant; perianth tubular
to urceolate
, usually constricted
basally; tepals 6, connate
most of their length
, distal portions distinct
, reflexed
, short, toothlike; stamens 6, epitepalous, in 2 rows
, included
; anthers
dark blue, dorsifixed
, globose
; ovary superior, green, 3-locular, inner sepal nectaries present; style 1; stigma 3-lobed. Fruits capsular
, obtusely 3-angled, papery
, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds 6, black, globose, wrinkled to reticulate
. x
= 9.
Species ca.
30: introduced
; temperate
Europe, n Africa, sw Asia; expected introduced elsewhere.
Various species and cultivated forms of Muscari are commonly grown for their early spring
flowers. They may reseed in the flora
area, but they are mostly transported in soil containing the bulblets.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Liliidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lilianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Asparagales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Suborder:
Asparagineae
()
-
- Family:
Asparagaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Tribe:
Hyacintheae
()
- Genus:
Muscari
()
- P. Miller, 1754
- Grape-hyacinth [Greek moschos, musk, alluding to the scent of the flowers]
- Specific epithet:
anatolicum
- Cowley & ?zhatay
- Botanical name: - Muscari anatolicum Cowley & zhatay Cowley & ?zhatay
- Specific epithet:
anatolicum
- Cowley & ?zhatay
- Genus:
Muscari
(
- Tribe:
Hyacintheae
(
- Family:
Asparagaceae
(
- Suborder:
Asparagineae
(
- Order:
Asparagales
(
- Superorder:
Lilianae
(
- Subclass:
Liliidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author
: Cowley & ?zhatay Publication
: Kew Bull
. 49(3):
485 (1994) 1994
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 09-Jul-2004
Similar Species
Members of the genus Muscari
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 29 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
M. armeniacum (Armenian Grape Hyacinth) · M. armeniacum 'Big Blue' (Grape Hyacinth) · M. armeniacum 'Blue Pearl' (Grape Hyacinth) · M. armeniacum 'Blue Spike' (Blue Spike Grape Hyacinth Muscari Armeniacum) · M. armeniacum 'Cantab' (Cantab Grape Hyacinth) · M. armeniacum 'Fantasy Creation' (Grape Hyacinth) · M. armeniacum 'Saffier' (Grape Hyacinth) · M. armeniacum 'Valerie Finnis' (Grape Hyacinth) · M. aucheri (Blue Grape Hyacinth) · M. aucheri 'Blue Magic' (Grape Hyacinth) · M. aucheri 'White Magic' (White Magic Grape Hyacinth) · M. azureum (Grape Hyacinth Muscari Azureum) · M. botryoides (Common Grape Hyacinth) · M. botryoides hungaricum (Common Grape Hyacinth) · M. botryoides lelievrii (Common Grape Hyacinth) · M. botryoides var. album (Album Grape Hyacinth) · M. comosum (Feather Hyacinth) · M. comosum 'Monstrosum' (Tassel Grape Hyacinth) · M. comosum 'Plumosum' (Feather Hyacinth) · M. latifolium (Grape Hyacinth Muscari Latifolium) · M. macrocarpum (Yellow Grape Hyacinth) · M. macrocarpum 'Golden Fragrance' (Yellow Grape Hyacinth) · M. muscarimi (Grape Hyacinth) · M. neglectum (Blue Bottle) · M. neglectum 'Baby's Breath' (Blue Bottle) · M. pallens (Grape Hyacinth) · M. racemosum (Grape Hyacinth) · M. 'Dark Eyes' (Grape Hyacinth) · M. 'Mount Hood' (Grape Hyacinth)
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Release date: November 27, 2009
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9133745
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-281804
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:979038-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 979038-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 755330
Footnotes
- Gerald B. Straley & Frederick H. Utech "Muscari". in Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 57, 316, 317, 318. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
