fasciata, (fas)
- Habit: Fairly tall, fasciated at the top of the main stem with
dense flowering spike. Fasciation mainly of the inflorescence, after cutting
back also entire plant.
- Leaves: Narrowish.
- Flowers: A notch is formed between the upper and lower petals
of the flowers. Anthers are present in the third whorl and the stigma
is thick and round (similar to that to
deficiens or
globosa)
and surrounds a much smaller stigma forming five whorls in all.
The ovary is round and consists of 6-8 loculi arranged around a
central core. Flower form slightly altered, 4-5 stamens (stamenoid not
retarded), 4-5 carpels. After cutting, 6-7 stamens and 6-7 placentas.
Not temperature sensitive. Wild type is on the left of the photograph and the mutant on the
right in rca pictures.
- Seed: K169. 1991/92
- Remarks:
fasciata Stock 125/83
- Pictures:
- Stubbe's original notes (as stored in the
IPK, Gatersleben) (in German!):
- Literature:
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