Biology:Zinnia peruviana
| Peruvian zinnia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Zinnia |
| Species: | Z. peruviana
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| Zinnia peruviana | |
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Synonymy
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Zinnia peruviana, the Peruvian zinnia, is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to North America and South America.
Description
Zinnia peruviana is an annual plant up to 50 cm tall (rarely 100 cm tall).[2][3] The stems are green, but later become yellow or purple.[3] The leaves are ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, 2.5–7 cm long and 8–3.5 cm wide; 3- to 5-nerved.[2][3] The peduncles are 1–7 cm long.[2][3] Flower heads with 6–21 red, maroon or yellow ray florets (with a 0.8–2.5 cm long petal each) surrounding 12–50 yellow disc florets (with 0.1 cm long corolla lobes).[2][3] Fruits (cypselae) oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 0.7–1 cm long, 3-angled or compressed, striate.[2][3]
Distribution and habitat
The native range of Z. peruviana spans from southeastern Arizona and the Greater Antilles south to Argentina .[2][3] It grows mostly on open areas or rocky slopes between 800–3000 m of elevation.[3][4]
It has been introduced to and naturalized in many places such as China , Pakistan , India , Bangladesh, Australia , South Africa and Hawaii.[5][6][7][8][9]
References
- ↑ The Plant List, Zinnia peruviana (L.) L.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Zinnia peruviana in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200024677.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Torres, Andrew M. (1963). "Taxonomy of Zinnia" (in en). Brittonia 15 (1): 1–25. doi:10.2307/2805035. ISSN 0007-196X.
- ↑ Nash, Dorothy; Williams, Louis (1976). "Flora of Guatemala" (in en). Fieldiana v.24:pt.12: 359–360.
- ↑ "Zinnia peruviana - Plants of Hawaii - Starr Environmental". http://www.starrenvironmental.com/images/search/?q=Zinnia+peruviana.
- ↑ "Zinnia peruviana | Atlas of Living Australia" (in en-AU). http://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2892210.
- ↑ Germishuizen, G.; Meyer, N. (2003). Plants of southern Africa : an annotated checklist. Pretoria: National Botanical Institute. pp. 310. ISBN 1919795995. OCLC 54957425.
- ↑ "Zinnia peruviana in Flora of China @ efloras.org". http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200024677.
- ↑ Sud, Gunjan (2016). "Zinnia peruviana L. (Asteraceae) an overlooked Species from Himachal Pradesh" (in en). Indian Forester 142 (8): 795–796. ISSN 2321-094X. http://www.indianforester.co.in/index.php/indianforester/article/view/101658.
External links
- photo of herbarium specimen collected in Nuevo León in Mexico in 1993
- line drawing from Manual of Vascular Plants of the Lower Yangtze Valley China Illustration fig. 378
Wikidata ☰ Q8072438 entry
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