Aquilegia pancicii

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Aquilegia pancicii
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Aquilegia
Species:
A. pancicii
Binomial name
Aquilegia pancicii

Aquilegia pancicii is a perennial flowering plant species in the genus Aquilegia (columbine) in the family Ranunculaceae. [1] Native to Serbia, it is endemic to the southeastern region of that country. The species has two-colored flowers that are blue and pale or white. It is not in cultivation.

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Description

Aquilegia pancicii is a species of herbaceous, perennial flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae (buttercups). [1] [2] : 29 

A. pancicii has flowers that are small and nodding. [3] : 537  In Aquilegia, each flower generally possesses five petaloid sepals and five petals. [2] : 31  [3] : 161  Each petal of Aquilegia typically comprises a broad portion protruding forward, known as a blade, and an elongated structure protruding backwards, known as a nectar spur . The spurs contain the nectar of the flower. [2] : 31–32  On A. pancicii the sepals are blue-violet, while the petals are bicolored with blades that are a faded blue-violet towards the bottom and white or pale at their ends. The nectar spurs are blue-violet and longer than the blade of the petals they are on. [3] : 537 

Certain mixtures of molecular compounds produce scents which may attract bees. Such compounds have been found in A. pancicii and similar columbines, indicating a possible adaption to assist in pollination. [4]

Taxonomy

Aquilegia pancicii was first described and given its binomial name in 1905 by the Hungarian biologist and botanist Árpád von Degen. [1]

Distribution

Aquilegia pancicii is native and endemic to southeastern Serbia. [2] : 110  [3] : 537  It predominately populates temperate biomes. [1]

Cultivation

In 2003, the American gardener and botanist reported that Aquilegia pancicii was not in cultivation. [2] : 110  The American botanist Philip A. Munz had reported the same in 1946. [5] : 68 

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Aquilegia pancicii Degen". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Nold, Robert (2003). Columbines: Aquilegia, Paraquilegia, and Semiaquilegia . Portland, OR: Timber Press. ISBN   0881925888 – via Internet Archive.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Nardi, Enio (2015). Il Genere Aquilegia L. (Ranunculaceae) in Italia/The Genus Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) in Italy: Aquilegia Italicarum in Europaearum conspectu descriptio. Translated by Coster-Longman, Christina. Florence: Edizioni Polistampa. ISBN   9788859615187.
  4. ↑ Radulović, Niko; Dekic, Milan; Zlatković, Bojan; Dekić, S.; Dekić, Vidoslav; Palić, R. (October 2007). "A detailed analysis of volatile constituents of Aquilegia pancicii Degen, a Serbian steno-endemic species". Chemical Papers. 61 (5). doi:10.2478/s11696-007-0055-y.
  5. ↑ Munz, Philip A. (25 March 1946). Aquilegia: The Cultivated and Wild Columbines. Gentes Herbarum. Vol. VII. Ithaca, NY: The Bailey Hortorium of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University – via Internet Archive.
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