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APG-Fam.: Asparagacae / Asparagus Fam.       Fam. tradit.: Liliaceae / Lily Fam.  

Genus:  Ornithogalum  L.
 

Authors:
   PARL.:  Filippo Parlatore (1816 - 1877), Italian botanist from Sicily
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
 

Etymology:
   Ornithogalum:   ornithos = bird, gala = milk
   kochii:   Karl Heinrich Emil Ludwig Koch (1809 - 1879), German botanist who worked in the Caucasus region (K. KOCH)
 

Ornithogalum kochii is a rather tiny member of the Ornithogalum umbellatum agg. aggregate. Its flower branches are not +/- horizontal as at the larger members of the aggregate, but rise obliquely upwards, giving the impression of a rather narrow inflorescence. The filaments of the inner and the outer petal circle under the pollines are differently wide, they are linear below and acuminate above (see e.g. Fig. 2). The ridges at the ovary are rounded at the top. The leaves are only 2 to 3 mm wide and are often already withered by the time the plant is blooming. Ornithogalum kochii is a plant of the Mediterranean and of South-Eastern Europe, but along the Elbe in the East of Germany there are such or very similar plants, too, which I haven't seen myself yet.

 

Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, I Norcia 7.6.2007
Fig. 1:  Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
I Norcia 7.6.2007
Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, I Norcia 7.6.2007
Fig. 2:  Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
I Norcia 7.6.2007
Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Corbières, Bugarach 14.5.1996
Fig. 3:  Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Corbières, Bugarach 14.5.1996
Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Corbières, Bugarach 14.5.1996
Fig. 4:  Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Corbières, Bugarach 14.5.1996
Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Causse du Larzac 7.6.2006
Fig. 5:  Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Causse du Larzac 7.6.2006
Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Causse du Larzac 7.6.2006
Fig. 6:  Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Causse du Larzac 7.6.2006
Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Causse du Larzac 7.6.2006
Fig. 7:  Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Causse du Larzac 7.6.2006
Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Causse du Larzac 7.6.2006
Fig. 8:  Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Causse du Larzac 7.6.2006
Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Saint Hubert 3.5.2023
Fig. 9:  Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Saint Hubert 3.5.2023
Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Saint Hubert 3.5.2023
Fig. 10:  Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Saint Hubert 3.5.2023
Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Saint Hubert 3.5.2023
Fig. 11:  Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Saint Hubert 3.5.2023
Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Saint Hubert 3.5.2023
Fig. 12:  Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Saint Hubert 3.5.2023
Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Saint Hubert 3.5.2023
Fig. 13:  Ornithogalum kochii / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Saint Hubert 3.5.2023
Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Fig. 14:  Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Fig. 15:  Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Fig. 16:  Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Fig. 17:  Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Fig. 18:  Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Fig. 19:  Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Fig. 20:  Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
F Lagnes 3.5.2023
Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, A Hainburg 8.7.2023
Fig. 21:  Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
A Hainburg 8.7.2023
Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, A Hainburg 8.7.2023
Fig. 22:  Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
A Hainburg 8.7.2023
Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, A Hainburg 8.7.2023
Fig. 23:  Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
A Hainburg 8.7.2023
Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, A Hainburg 8.7.2023
Fig. 24:  Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
A Hainburg 8.7.2023
Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem, A Hainburg 3.4.2023
Fig. 25:  Ornithogalum kochii ? / Koch's Star of Bethlehem
A Hainburg 3.4.2023

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