Alyssum minutum is a species of flowering plant in the genus Alyssum, family Brassicaceae, native to the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe.

Alyssum minutum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Alyssum
Species:
A. minutum
Binomial name
Alyssum minutum
Schltdl. ex DC.
Synonyms[1]
  • Alyssum argaeum Bornm.
  • Alyssum compactum De Not. ex Ces.
  • Alyssum marginatum Timb.-Lagr. & Jeanb.
  • Alyssum minutum subsp. moesiacum Velen.
  • Alyssum minutum var. condensatum Post
  • Alyssum ponticum Velen.
  • Alyssum potemkinii Akinf. ex Schmalh.
  • Alyssum psilocarpum Boiss.

An annual herbaceous plant, typically reaching a size of 5–10 cm, it grows on gravelly soil, rocky slopes and dry grassland.[2][3] It flowers from March until early summer.[4] Its chromosome number is 2n=16.[5]

Distribution

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The plant is found in scattered locations on the Iberian Peninsula (at elevations of 1000–2000 m in the Baetic System and in the central and northwestern parts of the peninsula),[6][7] Italy (Sardinia, Sicily and Calabria),[6] Greece (throughout the mainland, Crete, Lesbos and some of the larger islands; at elevations of 500–1900 m, rarely as low as sea level or as high as 2200 m),[5][3] in southern Albania, North Macedonia, southeastern Serbia,[6] Bulgaria (in the Upper Thracian Plain and the north-east),[8] in eastern Romania, northern Moldova, in Ukraine (especially in the Black Sea Lowland and in Crimea),[6] western and central Turkey, in Cyprus, West Syria,[9] Lebanon, Egypt and Morocco.[10] It was reported as present in the Caucasus by the 1939 Flora of USSR,[11] but this is not mentioned in the other sources cited here.

References

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  1. ^ "Alyssum minutum Schltdl. ex DC". World Flora Online. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  2. ^ Stojanov, N. (1970). "Iglovrǎh – Alyssum L.". In Jordanov, D.; Kožuharov, S. (eds.). Flora na Narodna Republika Bǎlgarija (in Bulgarian). Vol. 4. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. p. 504.
  3. ^ a b Hartvig, P. (1986). "Alyssum L.". In Strid, Arne (ed.). Mountain flora of Greece. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. pp. 284–5. ISBN 978-0-521-25737-4.
  4. ^ Spain: March–June (Küpfer & Nieto Feliner 1993); Greece: (March–)April–June (Hartvig 2002); Bulgaria: March–June (Stojanov 1970); Turkey: March–July (Dudley 1965).
  5. ^ a b Hartvig, P. (2002). "Alyssum L.". In Strid, Arne; Tan, Kit (eds.). Flora Hellenica. Vol. 2. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag. p. 207. ISBN 3904144928.
  6. ^ a b c d Jalas, J.; Suominen, J.; Lampinen, R. (1996). Atlas Florae Europaeae. Distribution of Vascular Plants in Europe. Vol. 11. Cruciferae (Ricotia to Raphanus). Helsinki: The Committee for Mapping the Flora of Europe & Societas Biologica Fennica Vanamo. p. 32. ISBN 951-9108-11-4.
  7. ^ Küpfer, Ph.; Nieto Feliner, G. (1993). "Alyssum L." (PDF). Flora Iberica. Vol. 4. pp. 180–2.
  8. ^ Asyov, B.; Petrova, A.; Dimitrov, D.; Vassilev, R. (2012). Conspectus of the Bulgarian Vascular Flora : Distribution Maps and Floristic Elements (4 ed.). Sofia: Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation. p. 63. Archived from the original on 2021-10-11. Retrieved 2021-12-27. A much wider distribution for Bulgaria is given in Jalas, Suominen & Lampinen (1996).
  9. ^ Dudley, T.R. (1965). "Alyssum L.". In Davis, P.H. (ed.). Flora of Turkey and the Eaast Aegean Islands. Vol. 1. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 377–8.
  10. ^ Marhold, K (2011). "Brassicaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity". Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  11. ^ Flora SSSR (in Russian). Vol. 8. Izd. AN SSSR. 1939. p. 354.