Die Weihnachtsglocke (Blandfordia punicea) (engl. Christmas Bell) ist eine von vier Pflanzenarten der Gattung Blandfordia, der einzigen Gattung der Familie der Blandfordiaceae innerhalb der Ordnung der Spargelartigen (Asparagales). Sie stammt aus Tasmanien und gedeiht auf nährstoffarmen Sandböden und sauren Moorböden.
Die Weihnachtsglocke ist eine ausdauernde, krautige Pflanze mit einem unterirdischen Rhizom und langen, grasartigen schmalen Laubblättern.
In einem lockeren traubigen Blütenstand sind bis zu 20, jeweils an einem kurzen Blütenstiel hängenden Einzelblüten angeordnet. Die leuchtend roten (lat. puniceus „granatapfelfarben“), am Ende gelb gesäumten, hängenden, glöckenförmigen Blüten sind etwa 3 cm lang. Die sechs stark röhrenförmig verwachsenen, gleichgestaltigen Blütenhüllblätter (Tepalen) laufen am Ende in kurze Kronzipfel aus.
Wie der Name andeutet, blüht sie um die Weihnachtszeit und kann in großer Zahl vorkommen, sodass der Boden weit hin von ihren roten Blüten bedeckt ist. Die Bestäubung geschieht durch nektarsuchende Vögel. Sie bildet Kapselfrüchte.
Diese Art wurde 1805 als Aletris punicea von Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière in Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen, 1 (11), S. 85, Tafel 111 erstbeschrieben. In die Gattung Blandfordia wurde sie 1830 als Blandfordia punicea von Robert Sweet in Sweet's Hortus Britannicus, 2. Auflage, S. 517 gestellt. Weitere Synonyme sind: Blandfordia grandiflora var. marginata (Herb.) Hook.f., Blandfordia grandiflora var. backhousii Hook.f. orth. var., Blandfordia marginata Herb., Blandfordia backhousii Lindl.orth. var., nom. inval.[1]
Der Gattungsname Blandfordia ehrt den englischen Adeligen George Spencer-Churchill, 5. Duke of Marlborough, Marquess of Blandford (geb. als George Spencer, George Spencer-Churchill ab 1817) (1766 – 1840).[2]
Die Weihnachtsglocke (Blandfordia punicea) (engl. Christmas Bell) ist eine von vier Pflanzenarten der Gattung Blandfordia, der einzigen Gattung der Familie der Blandfordiaceae innerhalb der Ordnung der Spargelartigen (Asparagales). Sie stammt aus Tasmanien und gedeiht auf nährstoffarmen Sandböden und sauren Moorböden.
Blandfordia punicea, commonly known as Tasmanian Christmas bell, is a species of flowering plant that is endemic to western Tasmania. It is a tufted perennial herb with linear leaves and drooping red, bell-shaped flowers that are yellow on the inside.
Blandfordia punicea is a tufted perennial herb with flat, ribbed, strap-like leaves 30–100 cm (12–39 in) long, 6–8 mm (0.24–0.31 in) wide, with small teeth on the edge and often with a reddish tinge. The flowering stem is unbranched and bears up to twenty bell-shaped flowers up to 20–40 mm (0.79–1.6 in) long. The flowers are borne on a stout flowering stem up to 1.0 m (3.3 ft) long, each flower with a pedicel 25–50 mm (0.98–2.0 in) long. The stamens are attached above the middle of the flower tube. The flowers are mostly red on the outside with yellow on the inside and are usually very prominent in their native habitat, often rising above ground-level vegetation between mid-spring and early autumn. The fruit is a capsule 25–40 mm (0.98–1.6 in) long on a stalk about 25 mm (0.98 in) long.[2][3][4]
The Tasmanian Christmas bell was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière who gave it the name Aletris punicea and published the description in Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen.[5][6] In 1830, Robert Sweet changed the name to Blandfordia punicea.[7] The specific epithet (punicea) is a Latin word meaning "reddish" or "purplish-red".[8]
Blandfordia punicea grows in button grass (Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus) and damp heath, mostly west of a line between Bruny Island and Rocky Cape.[4]
An Australian 50c stamp depicting the species was issued on 13 February 2007.[9]
Blandfordia punicea, commonly known as Tasmanian Christmas bell, is a species of flowering plant that is endemic to western Tasmania. It is a tufted perennial herb with linear leaves and drooping red, bell-shaped flowers that are yellow on the inside.
Blandfordia punicea là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Blandfordiaceae. Loài này được (Labill.) Sweet mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1830.[2]
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