Aquilegia fragrans

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Aquilegia fragrans
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Flower of Aquilegia fragrans at the Giardino Botanico Alpino Chanousia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Aquilegia
Species:
A. fragrans
Binomial name
Aquilegia fragrans
Synonyms [1]
List
    • Aquilegia vulgaris var. fragrans (Benth.) Aitch.
    • Aquilegia glauca Lindl.
    • Aquilegia glauca var. himalayica Rapaics  [ ru ]
    • Aquilegia kanaoriensis var. suaveolens Cambess.
    • Aquilegia suaveolens Brühl
    • Aquilegia vulgaris var. glauca Brühl
    • Aquilegia vulgaris var. himalaica Brühl
    • Aquilegia vulgaris var. suaveolens Brühl

Aquilegia fragrans, the fragrant columbine or sweet-scented columbine, is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the Western Himalayas. [1]

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Description

Aquilegia fragrans grows to 30–80 cm (12–31 in) in height. The rootstock is slender with the upper part covered by previous years' leaf-stalks. The stems are branched and densely hairy with glands below the flowers. The basal leaves are biternate with long hairy stalks. Its leaflets are wedge- or teardrop-shaped, paler and hairy beneath, green and usually hairless above, with two or three lobes. The flowers are horizontal or slightly nodding with whitish or pale purple sepals measuring 20–30 mm (0.79–1.18 in) in length. The petals are usually paler than the sepals and 15–18 mm (0.59–0.71 in) long, with straight or slightly curved nectar spurs measuring 15–18 mm (0.59–0.71 in). [2]

Taxonomy

The species is part of a clade containing several Western, Southern and Central Asian species of columbine, that likely split from their closest relatives in Eurasia in the mid-Pliocene, approximately 3.37 million years ago. [3]

Etymology

The specific epithet fragrans means "fragrant" in Latin.

Distribution and habitat

This species is native to subalpine meadows in the Western Himalayas at altitudes of 2,400–3,600 m (7,900–11,800 ft). It is present in the Kunar, Nuristan, Laghman, Nangarhar, and Parwan provinces of Afghanistan, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir regions of Pakistan, and the Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, and Uttarakhand states and Jammu and Kashmir union territory of India. [4]

Ecology

Aquilegia fragrans flowers from June to August. [2]

Conservation

The species has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Aquilegia fragrans Benth". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Fragrant Columbine". Flowers of India. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  3. Fior, Simone; Li, Mingai; Oxelman, Bengt; Viola, Roberto; Hodges, Scott A.; Ometto, Lino; Varotto, Claudio (2013). "Spatiotemporal reconstruction of the Aquilegia rapid radiation through next-generation sequencing of rapidly evolving cpDNA regions". New Phytologist. 198 (2): 579–592. doi: 10.1111/nph.12163 . PMID   23379348.
  4. "Aquilegia fragrans Benth". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  5. "Aquilegia - genus". IUCN Red List. 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2024.