Biology:Odontarrhena chondrogyna

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Odontarrhena chondrogyna
Alyssum chondrogynum 04.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Odontarrhena
Species:
O. chondrogyna
Binomial name
Odontarrhena chondrogyna
(B.L. Burtt) Španiel & al.

Odontarrhena chondrogyna is a species of perennial flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. It was previously included in the genus Alyssum, and hence named Alyssum chondrogynum, but was assigned to the newly established Odontarrhena after molecular phylogeny studies from the 2010s.[1] It is endemic to the island of Cyprus,[2] where it grows on rocky serpentinised slopes.

Description

Alyssum chondrogynum 02.jpg

The plant is a much branched subshrub with suberect, woody-at-base, stems, 20–50 cm high. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, grey-green, thick, obovoid to suborbicular, 8-16 x 7–13 mm, with short stellate hairs. Flowers actinomorphic, in terminal corymbose inflorescences, golden yellow, with 4 petals and sepals. Flowers April–June. Fruit an obovoid silicle with short stellate hairs.[3]

Distribution

It is only found in the Limassol Forest of Cyprus at 200–700 m altitudes where it is locally common: Kakomallis, Eloros, Kyparishia, Yerasa, Kellaki, Sanidha and Listovounos Forest.

References

  1. Španiel, Stanislav; Kempa, Matúš; Salmerón-Sánchez, Esteban; Fuertes-Aguilar, Javier; Mota, Juan F.; Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A.; German, Dmitry A.; Olšavská, Katarína et al. (2015-12-01). "AlyBase: database of names, chromosome numbers, and ploidy levels of Alysseae (Brassicaceae), with a new generic concept of the tribe". Plant Systematics and Evolution 301 (10): 2463–2491. doi:10.1007/s00606-015-1257-3. 
  2. "Odontarrhena chondrogyna (B.L.Burtt) Španiel, Al-Shehbaz, D.A.German & Marhold" (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/77151987-1. Retrieved 9 January 2022. 
  3. The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998, ISBN:9963-42-067-2

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