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Fam.: Gentianaceae / Gentian Fam.  

Synon.:  Gentiana germanica  WILLD.

Genus:  Gentianella  MOENCH,  Gentiana  L.
 

Authors:
   WILLD.:  Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765 - 1812), German botanist
   BÖRNER:  Carl Julius Bernhard Börner (1880 - 1953), German entomologist and botanist
   MOENCH:  Conrad Moench (1744 - 1805), chemist and botanist from Marburg (Germany)
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
 

Etymology:
   Gentianella:   diminutive of Gentiana = Gentian
   germanica:   from Germany
   Gentiana:   Genthius (about 180 - 168 BC), Illyrian king
 

The Chiltern Gentian  Gentianella germanica differs from similar species as e.g. Gentianella anisodonta, Gentianella austriaca, Gentianella lutescens, Gentianella ramosa, and some more, in that the calyx teeth are approximately the same size, smooth and hairless.
There are plants that look like the Chiltern Gentian in the central and eastern Alps, but also in various calcareous lower mountain ranges outside the Alps, e.g. in the Swiss Jura, in Germany (e.g. Swabian Alb, Franconian Alb), in the Czech Republic, in Belgium, and even in Great Britain. The populations inside and outside the Alps differ significantly genetically, therefore the Alpine populations were separated as Rhaetian Gentian Gentianella rhaetica. The morphological differences between the two species are rather small: At Gentianella rhaetica the corolla is 1.5 to maximum twice as long as the calyx, while at G. germanica it is usually more than twice as long. At G. rhaetica the peduncle of the ovary is about as long as the calyx, while at G. germanica it is only about a tenth to maximum half as long.

 

Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian, D Gruibingen 10.9.1987
Fig. 1:  Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian
D Gruibingen 10.9.1987
Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian, D Gruibingen 10.9.1987
Fig. 2:  Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian
D Gruibingen 10.9.1987
Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian, D Gruibingen 10.9.1987
Fig. 3:  Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian
D Gruibingen 10.9.1987
Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian, D Grettstadt 5.9.2018
Fig. 4:  Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian
D Grettstadt 5.9.2018
Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian, D Grettstadt 5.9.2018
Fig. 5:  Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian
D Grettstadt 5.9.2018
Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian, D Grettstadt 5.9.2018
Fig. 6:  Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian
D Grettstadt 5.9.2018
Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian, D Grettstadt 5.9.2018
Fig. 7:  Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian
D Grettstadt 5.9.2018
Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian, D Grettstadt 5.9.2018
Fig. 8:  Gentianella germanica / Chiltern Gentian
D Grettstadt 5.9.2018

 


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