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Adoxa moschatellina
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Public Records: 16
Specimens with Barcodes: 16
Species With Barcodes: 1
Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Reasons: Considered common in parts of Canada, Alaska, England, and other circumboreal habitats. Much rarer and sparsely distributed along the southern border of its range.
Adoxa moschatellina (moschatel, five-faced bishop,[1] hollowroot, muskroot, townhall clock, tuberous crowfoot) is an herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Adoxaceae. It is the sole member of the genus Adoxa. It grows throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, in hedgerows, cool forests, at low altitudes in the far north, to high altitudes in mountains in the south of its range. The plant and its flowers have a musk-like scent, which it emits towards evening when the dew falls. If the plant is bruised this scent disappears. In Europe, it flowers in April and May.
The names "five-faced bishop" and "townhall clock" allude to the structure of its inflorescence. This consists of five flowers: one four-petalled flower facing upwards, and four five-petalled flowers facing horizontally, as seen in the pictures.
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The species has not yet been recorded from Pakistan, but is to be expected from parts of Azad Kashmir adjoining the Pir Panjal range. Clarke on the basis of the number of cauline leaves (1) and occasionally 6-merous flowers, considers the Himalayan plant to be of varietal rank (i.e. var. inodora). Apart from the non-odorous flowers, the other two characters are variable in the specimens examined.
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Canada
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Global Range: A circumboreal plant of the upper Midwest and Canada extending south to southern Minnesota, Wisconsin, northern Illinois and northern Iowa. Disjunct populations in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
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Distribution: Widely distributed in Europe, N. & C. Asia, N. America.
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A glabrous herb with a well developed rhizome, creeping with fibrous roots and apically with white, ± fleshy and overlapping scales. Leaves dark green above, pale below. Petiole of radical leaves 4.5-11.0 cm long. Cauline leaves usually solitary. Leaflets 3-segmented; segments 3-6 x 2-6.5 cm, obtusely lobed. Flowering stem unbranched, 15-48 mm long, slender. Flowering heads 5-7 mm broad, globose, bearing a cluster of 4 lateral and 1 terminal flower. Calyx ovate, c. 1 mm long, half cleft; lobes 3-4 in number, obtuse, less than 1 mm long. Corolla rotate, greenish, 4-5-lobed; lobes suborbicular to oblong, ± 2.6 mm long, nervose. Stamens as many as the corolla lobes and alternating with them; each filament bearing half an anther; anthers yellow, less than 1 mm long. Drupe ± 5.5 mm broad, subglobose. Seeds 4-5, oblong, flat, 3-3.5 mm long, glabrous.
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The leaves of this unusual plant resemble those of AQUILEGIA, but the flowers superficially resemble those of SAXIFRAGA. However, this monotypic family is most closely related to the Valerianaceae.
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