Alyssoides

Alyssoides is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae containing a single species, Alyssoides utriculata. A herbaceous perennial plant native to Southern Europe and Turkey, it grows on dry rocky slopes and on calcareous rocks, reaching heights of 20 to 50 cm and blooming with yellow flowers between April and May–July.[2]

Alyssoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Alyssoides
Mill.
Species:
A. utriculata
Binomial name
Alyssoides utriculata
Synonyms[1]
  • Alyssoides graeca (Reut. ex Boiss.) Jáv.
  • Alyssum graecum (Reut. ex Boiss.) Kuntze
  • Alyssum oederi Durande
  • Vesicaria graeca Reut. ex Boiss.
  • Vesicaria utriculata (L.) DC.

The genus formerly contained a second species, Alyssoides cretica, but after molecular phylogenetic studies from 2008 and 2013 it was reassigned to the genus Lutzia.[3]

There are two subspecies: the A. utricalata subsp. utriculata, and A. utriculata subsp. bulgarica,[1] which characteristically differ by the pattern and shape of their hairs.[4]

Alyssoides utriculata is used as an ornamental plant and in gardening may be referred to as inflated bladderseed [5] or as (Greek) bladderpod[6] (not to be confused with other plants named bladderpod).

Distribution

The plant's distribution ranges from southern France to Turkey. It is found in the Massif Central of France, the Western Alps, the Apennines of Italy, the Dinaric Alps of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania;[7] in western Kosovo, in Serbia (the Tara and Rtanj mountains among others),[8] in the south of North Macedonia,[7] in Greece (from low elevations up to 2200(-2500) m; relatively common in the north-east, in more isolated locations in the north (Vourinos, Vermion, Olympus, and a few localities in Pindus) and the central areas (Pentelikon, Parnis, Parnassus and Giona)),[4] in Bulgaria (at elevations of 50–1900 m in Stara Planina, the Rhodopes, Strandzha and the southwest),[9] southwestern Romania,[7] and northern Anatolia.[10]

  • Botanical illustration
    Botanical illustration
  • Inflorescence
    Inflorescence
  • Fruits
    Fruits

References
  1. "AlyBase". Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  2. Asenov, I. (1970). "Alisoides – Alyssoides Mill.". In Jordanov, D.; Kožuharov, S. (eds.). Flora na Narodna Republika Bǎlgarija (in Bulgarian). Vol. IV. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. pp. 484–9. [A. graeca and A. bulgarica.]
  3. Španiel, Stanislav; Kempa, Matúš; Salmerón-Sánchez, Esteban; Fuertes-Aguilar, Javier; Mota, Juan F.; Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A.; German, Dmitry A.; Olšavská, Katarína; Šingliarová, Barbora; Zozomová-Lihová, Judita; Marhold, Karol (2015). "AlyBase: database of names, chromosome numbers, and ploidy levels of Alysseae (Brassicaceae), with a new generic concept of the tribe". Plant Systematics and Evolution. 301 (10): 2463–2491. doi:10.1007/s00606-015-1257-3.
  4. Hartvig, P. (1986). "Alyssoides Miller". In Strid, Arne (ed.). Mountain flora of Greece. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. pp. 276–8. ISBN 978-0-521-25737-4.
  5. "Alyssoides utriculata". Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  6. "Alyssoides utriculata (L.) Medik". Pl@ntNet. Retrieved 28 December 2021. See also entries at AlyBase and BrassiBase (accessed 28 December 2021).
  7. Jalas, J.; Suominen, J.; Lampinen, R. (1996). Atlas Florae Europaeae. Distribution of Vascular Plants in Europe. Vol. 11. Cruciferae (Ricotia to Raphanus). Helsinki: The Committee for Mapping the Flora of Europe & Societas Biologica Fennica Vanamo. p. 22. ISBN 951-9108-11-4.
  8. Nikolić, V. (1972). "Rod Alyssoides Adans.". Flora SR Srbije (in Serbian). Vol. 3. Beograd: Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti. pp. 285–6. [These are the only two mentioned here, but a somewhat wider area is given in the AFE.
  9. Asyov, B.; Petrova, A.; Dimitrov, D.; Vassilev, R. (2012). Conspectus of the Bulgarian Vascular Flora : Distribution Maps and Floristic Elements (4 ed.). Sofia: Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation. p. 62. Archived from the original on 2021-10-11. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  10. Cullen, J. (1965). "Alyssoides Adans.". In Davis, P.H. (ed.). Flora of Turkey and the Eaast Aegean Islands. Vol. 1. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 355–6.
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