- Family:
- Primulaceae Batsch ex Borkh.
Cyclamen L.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial herbs from tuberous rootstock
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, glabrous; blades heart-shaped to kidney-shaped or almost circular, entire or toothed, lobed or angled
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers regular, solitary, nodding, the stalk often coiling spirally in fruit
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx deeply 5-lobed, persistent in fruit
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla pink, purple or white; lobes 5, united near base, twisted in bud but strongly reflexed in flower
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens Anthers
- Anthers connivent and forming a cone
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary superior, several-ovulate; style slender; stigma truncate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule globose, splitting irregularly into 5–7 recurved valves
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds sticky.
- Distribution
- Genus of 20 species from parts of Europe, western Asia and North Africa, and with a single species in Somalia.
Native to:
Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus, Palestine, Poland, Sardegna, Sicilia, Somalia, South European Russi, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia
Extinct in:
Spain
Introduced into:
Belgium, Great Britain, Ireland, Oregon, Romania, Ukraine
- Cyclamen africanum Boiss. & Reut.
- Cyclamen alpinum Dammann ex Sprenger
- Cyclamen balearicum Willk.
- Cyclamen cilicium Boiss. & Heldr.
- Cyclamen colchicum (Albov) Correvon
- Cyclamen coum Mill.
- Cyclamen creticum (Dörfl.) Hildebr.
- Cyclamen cyprium Kotschy
- Cyclamen graecum Link
- Cyclamen hederifolium Aiton
- Cyclamen intaminatum (Meikle) Grey-Wilson
- Cyclamen libanoticum Hildebr.
- Cyclamen mirabile Hildebr.
- Cyclamen parviflorum Pobed.
- Cyclamen persicum Mill.
- Cyclamen pseudibericum Hildebr.
- Cyclamen purpurascens Mill.
- Cyclamen repandum Sm.
- Cyclamen rohlfsianum Asch.
- Cyclamen somalense Thulin & Warfa
Cyclamen L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 145 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
- Grey-Wilson, The genus Cyclamen (1988).
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