Arum concinnatum

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Arum concinnatum
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Arum concinnatum inflorescence
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Genus: Arum
Species:
A. concinnatum
Binomial name
Arum concinnatum
Schott
Synonyms [1]
  • Arum byzantinumSchott
  • Arum marmoratumSchott
  • Arum nickeliiSchott
  • Arum italicum var. concinnatum(Schott) Engler
  • Arum italicum var. byzantinum f. purpureopetiolatumEngler
  • Arum italicum var. byzantinum f. viridipetiolatumEngler
  • Arum italicum subsp. concinnatum(Schott) Richter
  • Arum wettsteiniiHruby
  • Arum italicum var. concinnatum subvar. marmoratum(Schott) Engler
  • Arum italicum var. concinnatum subvar. nickelii(Schott) Engler
  • Arum italicum var. concinnatum subvar. wettsteinii(Hruby) Engler
  • Arum italicum var. sieberiEngler
  • Arum italicum subsp. concinnatum(Schott) Engler

Arum concinnatum, commonly known as the Crete arum, is a flowering plant species in the family Araceae.

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Habitat

Arum concinnatum occurs in a variety of habitats including ditches, wet areas and Olea europaea groves from sea level to 350 meters of altitude. [1] The species occurs from the southern tip of the Peloponnese to south-western Turkey, as well as most eastern Mediterranean islands. [1]

Taxonomy

Within the genus Arum, it belongs to subgenus Arum and section Arum. [2] The species is related to Arum italicum , [2] [3] with which it shares similar horizontally-oriented rhizomatous tubers and hexaploid chromosome counts (2n = 84). [1]

A. concinnatum is often incorrectly called Arum byzantinum in horticulture. However, the true A. byzantinum is a smaller diploid species from NW Turkey with small, purple spadix appendices. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Boyce, Peter (1993). The Genus Arum. London: HMSO. ISBN   0-11-250085-4.
  2. 1 2 Linz, J.; Stökl, J.; Urru, I.; Krügel, T.; Stensmyr, M.C.; Hansson, B.S. (2010). "Molecular phylogeny of the genus Arum (Araceae) inferred from multi-locus sequence data and AFLP". Taxon. 59 (2): 405–415. doi:10.1002/tax.592006.
  3. Espíndola, A.; Buerki, S.; Bedalov, M.; Küpfer, P.; Alvarez, N. (2010). "New insights into the phylogenetics and biogeography of Arum (Araceae): unravelling its evolutionary history". Taxon. 163: 14–32.