Aethionema grandiflorum

Aethionema grandiflorum (Information about this image)

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Brassicales

Familia: Brassicaceae
Tribus: Aethionemeae
Genus: Aethionema
Species: Aethionema grandiflorum
Name

Aethionema grandiflorum Boiss. & Hohen., 1849
Synonyms

Aethionema pallidiflorum Hausskn. & Bornm. ex Bornm.
Aethionema pulchellum Boiss. & A. Huet

References

Boissier, P.E. & Hohenacker, R.F., 1849. Diagn. Pl. Orient. ser. 1, 8:42.

Links

Koch, M.A. et al. 2019. Aethionema grandiflorum in BrassiBase Tools and biological resources to study characters and traits in the Brassicaceae. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 May 09.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Aethionema grandiflorum. Published online. Accessed: May 09 2019.
The Plant List 2013. Aethionema grandiflorum in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 May 09.
Tropicos.org 2019. Aethionema grandiflorum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 May 09.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Aethionema grandiflorum in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Aethionema grandiflorum, commonly known as Persian stonecress or Persian candytuft, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae,[2] preferring to grow at 750 to 2600 m on limestone slopes. It is sometimes kept as a garden plant, and occasionally naturalizes outside its original range of eastern Turkey, the southern Caucasus and northern Iran. It is a recipient of the RHS's Award of Garden Merit.[3]
Description

Aethionema grandiflorum is a many-stemmed, short-lived perennial, typically forming 15 to 30 cm (at most 40 cm) tall spreading mounds. Its foliage is evergreen, and it has up to 15 pink to lilac cruciform flowers borne on terminal racemes.[4] It prefers alkaline soils.

Foliage

References

P. E. Boissier, Diagn. pl. orient. ser. 1, 8:42. 1849
"Aethionema grandiflorum Boiss. & Hohen". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
" Aethionema grandiflorum Persian stone cress". RHS. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
Moazzeni, Hamid; Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A.; German, Dmitry A.; Assadi, Mostafa; Müller, Jochen; Joharchi, Mohammad Reza; Memariani, Farshid (18 June 2018). "A taxonomic revision of the genus Aethionema s.l. (Brassicaceae) in Iran". Phytotaxa. 356 (4): 241–266. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.356.4.1.