Alpine Calamint (Calamintha alpina)
Description:
Calamantha alpina
is up to 25 cm tall plant that grows on drier stony soils from May to September. It is recognised by the hairy violet flower that grows from equally hairy calyx. The petals are pressed together, only slightly apart at the top.
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| jojoj19. 01. 2016 21:24:25 |
To the tireless author for numerous landscape photographs I can only say bravo.
I would just like to supplement the information about this plant.
Just informatively because we live in a period when in Botany significant shifts are happening in the unification of European (national) Botanies and Botany of the whole world.
This plant has at least since 1999 (penultimate edition of Mala flora Slovenije) the official Slovenian botanical name alpine thymewort – Acinos alpinus (L.) Moench, where Calamintha alpina (L.) Lam. is recognized as a synonym.
Since 2010, according to World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, it is classified as Clinopodium alpinum (L.) Kuntze and the other European names for the same plant are recognized only as synonyms these are:
Acinos alpinus (L.) Moench
Faucibarba alpina (L.) Dulac
Calamintha alpina (L.) Lam.
Melissa alpina (L.) Benth.
Satureja alpina (L.) Scheele
Thymus alpinus L.
In all the above cases, it is the same plant, which is differently classified in different literatures (which of course caused confusion)
How this will be reflected in the official botanical rearrangement in Slovenia, we have to wait for the release of the new Mala flora Slovenije. In everyday life also of those who deal with floristics even later.
I do not want to say that the naming Calamintha alpina is wrong, it is correct, but it is no longer official.
In any case, I share the opinion with many like-minded people that for the flora in Slovenia it is best to use names according to Mala flora Slovenije, just so that the confusion is as small as possible. No problems if people at will use locally established names in a certain area. The problem arises if they meet, to say poetically, a Prekmurec and a Primorec and each plays their own tune.
jojoj
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| zlatica20. 01. 2016 15:18:15 |
Jojoj, please one more clarification on the topic of this flower. When I went to look in the latest, 4th edition of Mala flora Slovenije from last year, I found under 19. as you say Acinus alpinus - alpine savory and under 20. Calamintha L. - calamint and under this name of course nothing on the alpine topic, although it should be a synonym for savory. Which Slovenian name is then more appropriate according to our literature: savory or calamint, because according to MFS they are obviously not the same. I hope I didn't ask incomprehensibly... lp
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| Apolonija20. 01. 2016 16:44:23 |
I'm also interested in jo-jo's explanation - As a layperson, I imagine that some counted Calamintha and Acinus as two different genera, some (according to synonyms) even as the same genus. So you find various calamints in the genus Calamintha, and in Acinus also the synonym alpine calamint. Now it will be in the genus Clinopodum - With today's new genetic research, many plants are being reclassified. I noticed this already with ornamental plants. Otherwise, for us nature lovers, the most important thing is to know which plant we're talking about when we communicate.
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| Apolonija20. 01. 2016 17:29:47 |
I remembered that the common cat's-foot (Clinopodium vulgare) belongs to the genus Clinopodum.
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| jojoj20. 01. 2016 18:34:17 |
In short. What is written in Mala flora Slovenije applies. When all changes are verified and also confirmed at all instances including DNA analyses, both in the botanical Eurozone and in Slovenia itself, it will be visible in the new Mala flora Slovenije.
So for Slovenia, the official Slovenian names and Latin taxa are those recorded in the currently latest edition of Mala flora Slovenije. (period. )
So the current official Slovenian names are "still the old ones": alpine savory Acinos alpinus.
Perhaps I went too far in my explanation with the intention to say that in botany nothing is sealed forever, things change with new findings. Sorry for my clumsiness. But the information I provided is accurate.
Yes Apolonija, according to the current situation, they are also classified in Mala flora into two different genera. (until DNA analyses finally refute it or not).
I hope I was clearer this time.
And let me add that when naming species, it is increasingly necessary to know old synonyms too, so as not to get lost in the flood of names.
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| jojoj20. 01. 2016 18:34:29 |
In short. What is written in Mala flora Slovenije applies. When all changes are verified and also confirmed at all instances including DNA analyses, both in the botanical Eurozone and in Slovenia itself, it will be visible in the new Mala flora Slovenije.
So for Slovenia, the official Slovenian names and Latin taxa are those recorded in the currently latest edition of Mala flora Slovenije. (period.)
So the current official Slovenian names are "still the old ones": alpine savory Acinos alpinus.
Perhaps I went too far in my explanation with the intention to say that in botany nothing is sealed forever, things change with new findings. Sorry for my clumsiness. But the information I provided is accurate.
Yes Apolonija, according to the current situation, they are also classified in Mala flora into two different genera. (until DNA analyses finally refute it or not).
I hope I was clearer this time.
And let me add that when naming species, it is increasingly necessary to know old synonyms too, so as not to get lost in the flood of names.
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