Scilla buekkensis

Species of flowering plant

Scilla buekkensis

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Order:  | Asparagales
Family:  | Asparagaceae
Subfamily:  | Scilloideae
Genus:  | Scilla
Species:  |

S. buekkensis

Binomial name
Scilla buekkensis

Speta

Scilla buekkensis (syn. Scilla drunensis subsp. buekkensis (Speta) Kereszty) is a species of Scilla native to some beech and hornbeam forests in Hungary and Slovakia in Central Europe.[1][2] Since species and subspecies of Scilla greatly vary in numbers of chromosomes, it is hard to tell whether two separate populations should be described as different subspecies or species.[2] The plant derives its name from the Bükk Mountains in North-East Hungary.

It is a bulb-bearing herbaceous perennial plant. The flowering stem bears pyramidal raceme of a few flowers; each flower is blue, with six tepals, each 12 mm long and 2,5 mm wide. The flower has 4-7 ovules in each carpel. The flower's elaiosomes are pearl-like, and grouped to form a disc. It flowers from March to April.[3]

This is a protected species in Hungary.[citation needed]

* A flower of Scilla buekkensis

## References[edit]

1. ^ Letz, R., Uhríková, A. & Májovský, J. (1999). Chromosome numbers of several interesting taxa of the flora of Slovakia. Biologia, Bratislava 54: 43-49.
2. ^ a b Kochjarová, J. (2005). Scilla bifolia group in the Western Carpathians and adjacent part of the Pannonian lowland: annotated chromosome counts. Preslia (Praha) 77: 317–326. Available online (pdf).
3. ^ Simon, T. (2000). A magyarországi edényes flóra határozója (Field guide to the vascular flora of Hungary).

## See also[edit]

* List of Scilla species

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q7433892
* Wikispecies: Scilla buekkensis
* CoL: 4VJCP
* GBIF: 2767551
* iNaturalist: 862702
* IPNI: 928438-1
* Open Tree of Life: 7582243
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:928438-1
* Tropicos: 18405578
* WFO: wfo-0000739748

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