Distribution: Caucasus, Turkey, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, East Bulgaria
Celtis caucasica Willd. - Synonym: Celtis australis subsp. caucasica (Willd.) C. C. Towns. bei The Plant List (2010); Familie: Cannabaceae (APG III)Celtis australis subsp. caucasica (Willd.) C. C. Towns. - Accepted: Celtis australis subsp. caucasica (Willd.) C. C. Towns. bei The Plant List (2010); Familie: Cannabaceae (APG III)Celtis caucasica Willd. - Accepted: Celtis caucasica Willd. bei Zander 2008; Familie: Ulmaceae (Zander 2008)Celtis australis subsp. caucasica (Willd.) C. C. Towns. - Accepted: Celtis australis subsp. caucasica (Willd.) C. C. Towns. bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Ulmaceae (APG III)Celtis australis subsp. caucasica (Willd.) C. C. Towns. - Accepted: Celtis australis subsp. caucasica (Willd.) C. C. Towns. bei The Plant List (2010); Familie: Cannabaceae (APG IV)
Color of flower
pale green
Flowers
hermaphrodite flowers; five-stellate flowers arranged to stalkness clusters
Flower ecology
wind-pollinated (anemophilous)
Life form
woody, tree or shrub
Leaves
ovate or ovate-lanceolate; margin serrate with sharp curved teeth; leaf base unequal
Foliage persistence
deciduous
Fruits
produces globose drupes
Fruit ecology
animal-dispersed (zoochorous, ornithochorous)
Soil conditions
on rocky (limestone) soils
Light conditions
full sun plant (heliophyte)
Root type
highly branched root system
Natural occurrence (habitat)
dry stony bluffs, rocks, crevices, ravines, and more rarely as undergrowth in clearings
Vegetation typ and synecology (plant community)
temperate, mixed deciduous forests and scrubs; in shiblyak communities (brushwood)
Constraints according moisture
drought-resistant
Altidudinal lower limit (sea level in m)
800
Altitudinal higher limit (sea level in m)
2,600
Batsatsashvili K. et al. (2017): Celtis caucasica Willd. Cannabaceae. In: Bussmann R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham: pp. 183-186. 978-3-319-49411-1.; Erhardt, W., Götz, E., Bödeker, N. & Seybold, S. (2008): Der große Zander. Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. Band 2. Arten und Sorten. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart (Hohenheim), 18. Aufl., 2103 S.; Fet, V. & Atamurodov, K. (2012): Biogeography and Ecology of Turkmenistan. Band 72 von Monographiae Biologicae. Springer Science & Business Media, Luxembourg: 653 S. 978-9-401-11116-4.; Jafari, M. et al. (2017): Reclamation of Arid Lands. Environmental Science. Springer: 267 S. 978-3-319-54828-9.; Plants for a Future (1996-2012): PFAF. See: https://pfaf.org/; The International Plant Names Index (2009). Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org; Courtesy to IPNI, 2009. Exported from IPNI at date: 2009-09-22 20:17:51;
Taxonomic update: Database method on: 26.2.2020Update of the description: Matthias Krause; latest by: Matthias Krause on: 12.6.2019In the list below you will find the geographic coordinates of many woody plants in the garden. In these cases the points are marked in the map. If no coordinates are listed, the coordinate of the point in the map marks the middle coordinate of the section.