Wahlenbergia linarioides

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Campanulaceae

The Campanulaceae are herbs, shrubs , or rarely small trees comprising about 70 genera and 2,000 species usually with milky sap . The leaves are nearly always alternate and simple ; stipules are absent The flowers are bisexual , and actinomorphic in the subfamily Campanuloideae but zygomorphic in the Lobelioideae. The perianth and androecium are usually 5-merous, sometimes 3-10-merous. The calyx and corolla each consist of connate segments. The stamens equal the number of corolla lobes , alternate with them, and are adnate to the extreme base of the corolla or epigynous zone or more commonly arise from the annular epigynous nectary disk; the filaments are distinct and the anthers are introrse and only weakly connivent around the style in the Campanuloideae but in the lobelioideae the introrse anthers and also often the filaments are firmly connate. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of usually 2 carpels and locules with numerous axile ovules in the subfamily Lobelioideae but usually consists of 3-5 carpels and locules with numerous axile ovules in the subfamily Campanuloideae. The single style commonly has a number of lobes or stigmas equal to the number of carpels. The ovary is nearly always inferior and is generally crowned with an epigynous annular nectary disk. The fruit is usually a capsule or berry. -- Gerald Carr.

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).[1]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Campanula linarioides Lam. • Wahlenbergia linarioides< /i> (Lam.) A. Dc.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 30-Aug-2006

Similar Species

Members of the genus Wahlenbergia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 18 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

W. akaroa (Bluebell) · W. albomarginata (Wahlenbergia) · W. angustifolia (Small Bellflower) · W. capensis (Cape Bluebell) · W. ceracea (Waxy Bluebell) · W. communis (Tufted Bluebell) · W. congesta (White Harebell) · W. gymnoclada (Naked Bluebell) · W. krebsii (Wahlenbergia) · W. linarioides (Tuffybells) · W. linifolia (Large Bellflower) · W. luteola (Austalian Bluebell) · W. marginata (Southern Rockbell) · W. multicaulis (Tadgells Bluebell) · W. pendula (Wahlenbergia) · W. stricta (Tall Bluebell) · W. tenuifolia (Grassy Bells) · W. undulata 'Melton Bluebird' (Wahlenbergia)

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Further Reading

• Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 8 1881 New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1870-1996 url p. 142.
• Don, G. A general history of the dichlamydeous plants: comprising complete descriptions of the different orders...the whole arranged according to the natural system /by George Don. 3 1834 London: J.G. and F. Rivington, 1831-1838. url p. 740, p. 742.
• Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride; B.E. Dahlgren, editor. 13 1937 Chicago, U.S.A.: Field Museum of Natural History, [1937] url p. 386, p. 387.
• Hooker, W. J. & G. A. W. Arnott. The botany of Captain Beechey's voyage;comprising an acount of the plants collected by Messrs. Lay and Collie, and other officers of the expedition, during the voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Strait, performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey. .. in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28.By Sir William Jackson Hooker. .. and G. A. Walker Arnott. .. 1841 London, H. G. Bohn, 1841. url p. 484.
• Journal of botany: being a second series of the Botanical miscellany. 1 1834 London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green &amp; Longman; Edinburgh: A. &amp; C. Black, 1834-1842. url p. 278.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 1, p. 11.
• Plant-geography upon a physiological basis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903. url p. 444.
• Preliminary catalog of Anthophyta and Pteridophyta, reported as growing spontaneously within one hundred miles of New York City. New York, 1888. url p. 84.
• Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899. J. B. Hatcher in charge. Edited by William B. Scott. Princeton, The University, 1901-32 [v. 1, 1903] url p. 250.
• The vegetable kingdom: or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system / by John Lindley. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. url p. 691.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 01, 2007:

• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, SysTax
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2669780
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-357479
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13763260
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:145811-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 41947
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 505734
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: WALI
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 68529

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,604.750 meters (5,264.928 feet), Standard Deviation = 2,014.700 based on 40 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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