Colchique

The colchic are plants monocotylédones of the family of the Colchicaceae (Of the Liliaceae in traditional classification). Nevertheless, until now, these plants are distributed in several kinds.

Colchicum

The kind Colchicum contains more than 70 species. Let us quote: See the article Colchicum for more information.

Bulbocodium

The Bulbocodium are characterized from colchic by their entirely free tepals and their styles welded except at the top. Spring flowering.

  • Bulbocodium vernum L.: The Western Alps and Carpates. The campanette, which flowers among the young sheets with the snow melt, resembles a crocus.

  • Bulbocodium versicolor (Ker Gawl.) Spreng. : Eastern Europe. With smaller flower.

Merendera

The Merendera are distinguished from colchic by their entirely free sepals and from the Bulbocodium by their entirely free styles.

Species with spring flowering

  • Merendera androcymbioides Valdés: endemic of the south of Spain (Torre LED campo)

  • Merendera will sobolifera C.A.Mey. : Balkans and minor Asia. The cormes girls appear at the end of stolons; from where its name of species.
  • Merendera trigyna (Steven ex Adams) Stapf: Minor Asia
  • Merendera kurdica Bornmüller: Minor Asia
  • Merendera hissarica Regelation: Central Asia

Species with autumnal flowering

  • Merendera Montana Lange (Syn. Merendera pyrenaica ): The central Pyrenees and Iberian peninsula, with canaliculées sheets appearing at the end of the flowering)

  • Merendera attica (Spruner ex Tom.) Wood. & Spruner (Syn. Merendera rhodopaea ): endemic of Bulgaria and Greece
  • Merendera filifolia Cambess. : Western Mediterranean region, with thread-like sheets; very rare and protected, littoral of the Rhone delta (Blue Coast)
  • Merendera caucasica M.Bieb. : Balkan and minor Asia.
  • Merendera persica Wood. : Minor Asia.

Notice

Last phylogenies published (Vinnersten & Reeves) indicate that the kinds Bulbocodium and Merendera would be to reinstate in the kind Colchicum .

It is probably the same for the kind Androcymbium , a Mediterranean and African kind comprising some 40 species, of which 2 exist in Europe:

  • Androcymbium europaeum (Lange) K.Richt. (Spain)
  • Androcymbium rechingeri Greuter (Crete).

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