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Platanus orientalis L. 1753
Platanaceae
(APG IV)Oriental plane, Oriental plane tree, Old World sycamore
Akzessionnummer: EG-M-071-18778
Pflanzjahr: 1950
Taxon concept: The Plant List (2014), version 1.1
Distribution: South East Europe to Western Asia
Platanus orientalis L. - Accepted: Platanus orientalis L. bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Platanaceae (APG III)
- Flowers
- monoecious species; flowers in globose capitate inflorescences
- Flower ecology
- wind-pollinated (anemophilous)
- Life form
- tree
- Leaves
- leaves palmately 5-7 lobed; young leaves and shoots tomentose with stellate hair
- Foliage persistence
- deciduous
- Fruits
- fruit is an aggregate fruit of achenes (nutlets)
- Fruit ecology
- wind-dispersed (anemochorous) and water-dispersed (hydrochorous)
- Soil conditions
- preferentially on moist gravel soils that are near to groundwater level
- Natural occurrence (habitat)
- river banks, along streams, wetlands, valleys, mixed forests
- Vegetation typ and synecology (plant community)
- temperate, mixed mesophytic deciduous forests
- Constraints according temperature
- frost sensitive
- Constraints according radiation (light)
- intolerant of shade
- Constraints according habitat
- tolerant to air pollution
- Usage
- the wood is used for the production of furniture, barrels, cabinets, crates, panelling, and gun carriages as well as for paper production; also used as ornamental tree; the bark is used for medicinal purposes in Iran
Global Biodiversity Information Facilty (GBIF). Online Publication: www.gbif.org; Missouri Botanical Garden, www.tropicos.org; Oberdorfer, E. (2001): Pflanzensoziologische Exkursionsflora. Für Deutschland und angrenzende Gebiete. Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 8., stark überarb. u. erg. Aufl, 1056 S. 978-3-8001-3131-0.;
