| Aquilegia einseleana | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Ranunculales |
| Family: | Ranunculaceae |
| Genus: | Aquilegia |
| Species: | A. einseleana |
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| Aquilegia einseleana | |
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Aquilegia einseleana, or Einsele's columbine, is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the eastern Alps. [2]
Aquilegia einseleana grows to 15–40 cm (5.9–15.7 in) in height. It has 1–3 (rarely up to 6) nodding blue-violet flowers of 2.5–4.0 cm (0.98–1.57 in) in diameter, with straight or slightly incurved spurs of around 9 mm (0.35 in). [3] [4]
Aquilegia einseleana is most closely related to Aquilegia bertolonii , Bertoloni's columbine. The two species are estimated to have diverged from each other in the Pliocene around 1.23 million years ago, and form a sister clade to one containing the other European and some North and East Asian species of Aquilegia, from which they diverged approximately 2.5 million years ago. [5]
The species was described by the German botanist Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz (1804–1876) in 1848, and named after his friend Dr. August Max Einsele (1803–1870), a Bavarian physician and botanist. [6]
Aquilegia einseleana is native to the central and eastern Alps of Slovenia, Bavaria in Germany, [7] Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, and Veneto in Italy, [8] and Austria. [2] It grows in grassy and rocky limestone areas [9] at altitudes of 600–1,800 m (2,000–5,900 ft), in the montane to subalpine zones. [3]
Aquilegia einseleana flowers from June to July [3] and is pollinated by bumblebees. [4]
The species has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List. [1] In Switzerland, it is considered vulnerable in certain regions, and is fully protected in the Canton of Ticino. [3]
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