User:DavidAnstiss/Astrantia pauciflora

Astrantia pauciflora, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae. It has long reddish (or white) flowers.

Description
It is very similar in form to Astantia major

Astrantia pauciflora Authors: Bertol.

Much like A. minor but the leaves composed of five to seven narrowly lanceolate lobes which are obscurely toothed or denticulate. Italy, central and southern Apennines in limey soils. http://encyclopaedia.alpinegardensociety.net/plants/Astrantia/pauciflora
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Notes on some Italian species of Astrantia L. (Umbelliferae) M. G. Mariotti Journal Webbia Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Geography Volume 43, 1989 - Issue 1 Pages 1-17 | Accepted 05 Jan 1989, Published online: 14 Apr 2013 he lectotypes of Astrantia pauciflora Bertol, and A. diversifolia Stur are here designated and referred to the same taxonomic unit. The existence of significant differences between the Apuan populations of Astrantia (sect. Astrantiella) and centroapenninic ones are demonstrated by biometric methods. The author, after proving that Stur already had recognized two species but under erroneous names, describes the centroapenninic unit as a new species: Astrantia tenorei. The author provides also some data about the variation, distribution and ecology of Astrantia pauciflora and A. tenorei. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00837792.1989.10670444 |accessdate=11 September 2017}}

There is a subspecies A. pauciflora subsp. tenorei (Mariotti) Bechi & Garbari found on the stony pastures at high altitudes in Italy.

Taxonomy
The specific epithet pauciflora, refers to the Latin term for 'few flowered'.

A. pauciflora was originally described and published by Antonio Bertoloni in J. Bot. Agric. 2: 76 1813. Apiaceae Astrantia pauciflora Bertol.

in Desv. Journ. Bot. ii. (1813) 76.

It is an RHS Accepted name.

Distribution and habitat
It is native to the south-eastern Alps in Europe.

Other sources
Apiaceae Family: Volume 2 By Boris Lariushin 2012, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
 * Walter Erhardt, Erich Götz, Nils Bödeker, Siegmund Seybold: Der große Zander. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7. (Ger.)
 * Christoper Brickell (Editor-in-chief): RHS A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants. Third edition. Dorling Kindersley, London 2003, ISBN 0-7513-3738-2.
 * Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
 * Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
 * Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
 * Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea