Aquilegia Linnaeus 1753

Identification key to the genus Aquilegia in Russia 1. Stems glaucous, in the upper part glabrous or sparsely pubescent with simple hairs; seed surface striate.......................................2 - Stems green, in the upper part with glandular and sometimes simple hairs; seed surface smooth, striate or tuberculate.................5 2(1). Flowers small, 1.3–1.8 cm in diameter; spurs not inflated at base................................................................................. A. synakensis + Flowers large, 2–7 cm in diameter; spurs inflated at base..................................................................................................................3 3(2). Follicles 5, glabrous (plants from Siberia).......................................................................................................................... A. sibirica - Follicles 4–8, sparsely pubescent with simple hairs (plants from Far East Russia)...........................................................................4 4(3). Leaves thin, green adaxially, greyish abaxially; sepals acuminate at apex; anthers yellow............................................ A. amurensis - Leaves thick, dark green with brighter nerves adaxially, greyish abaxially; sepals rounded at apex; anthers blackish.. A. flabellata 5. Seeds with tuberculate surface, dull...................................................................................................................................................6 - Seeds with striate or smooth surface, glossy....................................................................................................................................12 6. Flowers 5–10......................................................................................................................................................................................7 - Flowers 1–4........................................................................................................................................................................................8 7(6). Sepals shorter than petal laminae; laminae broadly rounded at apex, spurs bent outwards from the flower axis; vegetative parts of plant having a strong smell.............................................................................................................................................. A. aradanica - Sepals equal to or longer than petal laminae; laminae blunted at apex, spurs parallel to flower axis; plant without strong smell................................................................................................................................................................................................. A. grubovii 8(6). Flowers> 4 cm in diameter, blue or 2-coloured (sepals blue, laminae white or yellowish); stamens shorter than laminae, anthers yellow; follicles (5)6–15, style 0.6–1 cm long..................................................................................................................................9 - Flowers 1–4 cm in diameter, yellowish green, dark purple, or 2-coloured (sepals pale blue or lilac-blue, petals purple to violet); stamens longer than laminae; follicles 5, styles 0.7–1.5 cm long...................................................................................................10 9. Flowers blue; sepals spreading; laminae ovate, spreading, tips bent inwards............................................................... А. glandulosa - Flowers 2-coloured (sepals and spurs blue, petal laminae white or yellowish); sepals perpendicular to floral axis; laminae oblong, suberect or parallel to floral axis, tips bent outwards......................................................................................................... A. jucunda 10(5). Flowers 2-coloured (sepals and spurs blue, petal laminae white or yellowish), spurs straight or bent to one side, swollen at the base; petal laminae rounded, do not close at the edges, narrowed at apex.......................................................................... A. turczaninovii - Flowers yellowish green, dark purple or 2-coloured (sepals pale blue or lilac-blue, petals purple to violet); spurs straight or bent outwards; petal laminae blunt, closed by the edges.........................................................................................................................11 11(10). Flowers yellowish green or dark purple; sepals shorter than or nearly equal to petal laminae, rounded at apex; laminae broadly spatulate.......................................................................................................................................................................... A. viridiflora - Flowers 2-coloured (sepals pale blue or lilac-blue, petals purple to violet); sepals longer than petal laminae, acute to obtuse or acuminate at apex; laminae broadly truncate................................................................................................................... A. kamelinii 12(5). Plant with long thick diageotropic rhizome branched into thinner vertically growing rhizomes; petal laminae strongly ventrally folded.............................................................................................................................................................................. A. parviflora - Plant with short erect rhizome (taproot); petal laminae not folded.................................................................................................13 15(13). Anthers blackish...............................................................................................................................................................................16 - Anthers yellow..................................................................................................................................................................................21 16. Flowers creamy (white) or 2-coloured (sepals and spurs dark purple or dark red, laminae yellow or yellowish white)................17 - Flowers purple, violet, blue or 2-coloured (sepals and spurs blue, laminae white or purplish white).............................................18 17(16). Flowers creamy; laminae 1.5–2 cm long; spurs curved.................................................................................................. A. ganboldii - Flowers 2-coloured (sepals dark purple or dark red, laminae yellow or yellowish white); laminae 1–1.3 cm long; spurs hooked, rarely curved.................................................................................................................................................................... A. oxysepala 18(16). Flowers 2-coloured (sepals and spurs blue, laminae white, yellowish or whitish blue) (plants from Caucasian part of Russia)................................................................................................................................................................................................... A. olympica - Flowers blue, light violet, dark red or dark purple...........................................................................................................................19 19(18) Flowers dark red or dark purple, laminae bent outwards; filaments red-garnet, red violet; stamens longer that laminae (Irkutsk Oblast, not native)................................................................................................................................................................. A. atrata - Flowers blue, light violet or violet, laminae parallel to floral axis; filaments white; stamens equal to or shorter than laminae.....20 20(19) Inflorescence 1–4-flowered; flowers 3–6 cm in diameter; laminae rounded at the apex; spurs thin, often coiled; stamens slightly longer than to about as long as laminae (plants from Far East Russia)........................................................................... A. barykinae - Inflorescence usually> 4-flowered; flowers 2–3.5 cm in diameter; laminae blunted at the apex; spurs inflated, slightly curved; stamens not longer than laminae (not native)...................................................................................................................... A.vulgaris 21(15) Flowers concolored, blue or blue-violet, 5–6.5 cm long; spurs straight, inflated at base, 1–1.2 cm long (plants from Far East Russia)............................................................................................................................................................................ A. ochotensis - Flowers 2-colored, (sepals and spurs blue, petal laminae white or yellowish), 2.5–4 cm long; spurs divergent, crescent-curved inwards, not inflated at base, 1.5–3 cm long.................................................................................................................... A. borodinii Note:—The taxonomic status of Aquilegia kubanica Vassiljeva (1992: 1765) should be verified by a set of methods, and additional herbarium materials should be studied.
Published as part of Erst, Andrey S., Shaulo, Dmitry N., Baasanmunkh, Shukherdorj, Choi, Hyeok Jae, Kaigalov, Igor V., Kulikovskiy, Maxim S., Maltseva, Svetlana Yu., Lian, Lian & Wang, Wei, 2022, First record of Aquilegia grubovii (Ranunculaceae) for Russia and key to all currently known species in the country, pp. 213-219 in Phytotaxa 576 (2) on pages 217-218, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.576.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/7461391
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