View source for Muscari ← Muscari You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Muscari |accepted_authority=Miller |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. |place=4, vol. 2. 1754 |year=1754 }} |common_names=Grape-hyacinth |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Liliaceae;Muscari |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Muscari]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek moschos, musk, alluding to the scent of the flowers |volume=Volume 26 |mention_page=page 57, 317, 318 |treatment_page=page 316 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, scapose, from brown, tunicate, ovoid bulbs, with or without offsets (bulblets). <b>Leaves</b> (1–)2–7, basal; blade linear, sometimes sulcate, glabrous, rather fleshy. <b>Scape</b> terete. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminally racemose, many-flowered, dense, bracteate, usually elongating in fruit; distal flowers smaller, sterile, differing in color, forming a tuft (coma); bracts minute. <b>Flowers</b> fragrant; perianth tubular to urceolate, usually constricted basally; tepals 6, connate most of their length, distal portions distinct, reflexed, short, toothlike; stamens 6, epitepalous, in 2 rows, included; anthers dark blue, dorsifixed, globose; ovary superior, green, 3-locular, inner sepal nectaries present; style 1; stigma 3-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, obtusely 3-angled, papery, dehiscence loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> 6, black, globose, wrinkled to reticulate. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=temperate Europe;n Africa;sw Asia;expected introduced elsewhere. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 30 (3 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Various species and cultivated forms of Muscari are commonly grown for their early spring flowers. They may reseed in the flora area, but they are mostly transported in soil containing the bulblets.</p><!-- --><p>Muscari armeniacum Baker has been attributed to the flora, but no definite records of naturalized plants have been found. Herbarium specimens of that species are difficult to distinguish from those of M. neglectum, but live specimens of M. armeniacum have much paler blue flowers (A. Huxley et al. 1992).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Tepals of fertile flowers pale to olive brown, sterile flowers bright violet, shorter than the 6–25 mm ascending pedicels. |[[Muscari comosum|Muscari comosum]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Tepals of fertile and sterile flowers blue, longer than the 1–4(–5) mm declined, nodding, or spreading pedicels. |[[#key-0-2| > 2]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Racemes 12–20-flowered; leaf blades 3–8 mm wide; perianth tubes of fertile flowers globose, sky blue. |[[Muscari botryoides|Muscari botryoides]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Racemes 20–40-flowered; leaf blades 2–4(–5) mm; perianth tubes of fertile flowers obovoid to oblong-urceolate or cylindric, blackish blue. |[[Muscari neglectum|Muscari neglectum]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Muscari |author=Gerald B. Straley†;Frederick H. Utech |authority=Miller |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Liliaceae |distribution=temperate Europe;n Africa;sw Asia;expected introduced elsewhere. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. |publication year=1754 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_632.xml |genus=Muscari }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Liliaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Liliaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Muscari.