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Muscari neglectum (Southern Grape Hyacinth) |
Muscari neglectum (ASPARAGACEAE.)
Images for this profile are taken from the Maltese Islands after year 2000.
Website launch: Oct-2002
Taxonomic update: Aug-2026
Code update: Jul-2026 |
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| Nomenclature and General Information |
Species name : |
Muscari neglectumGuss. ex Ten.
Published in Fl. Neap. Syll. App. Quinta 13 (1842) |
Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.) |
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Plant Family : |
Asparagaceae Juss. (The Asparagus Family) Previously included in Liliaceae
33 species from the Asparagaceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands. | English name(s) : | Southern Grape Hyacinth, Starch Grape Hyacinth |
Maltese name(s) : |
Maltese name not known |
Status for Malta : |
Indigenous. Present on the Maltese islands before man |
Frequency : |
Very Common Common Frequent Scarce Rare Very rare Extinct |
Growth form : |
Germination type [info]: Monocotyledon
Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: Geophyte ( perennials bearing underground bulbs, tubers, rhizomes, stolons, etc. ) |
Legal Protection : |
Not legally protected till the last update of this website (22/Aug/2025) |
Red List (1989) : |
Threatened status for the Maltese Islands and has been listed in the Red Data Book (1st ed.) |
Flowering Time : |
March – April |
Colour of Flowers: |
Blue |
Toxicity: |
Not particularly toxic |
Name Derivation : |
Muscari: Greek word for musk - a greasy secretion with a strong fragrant odour, produced in a glandular sac beneath the skin of the abdomen of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes. Flowers of many species of this genus have this scent. (Greek origin)
neglectum: ()
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Planting in rural areas : |
Can be planted in rural areas according to ERA Guidelines |
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Description, Habitat and Distribution | |
Botanical Description |
Bulbs with or without offsets; tunics dark to reddish-brown. Leaves 3-6, 6-40 cm x 1.5-8 mm, linear to linear-lanceolate, canaliculate to involute, bright green, sometimes reddish at base. Scape 4-30 cm, often as long as leaves. Raceme usually dense. Pedicel of fertile flowers 0.5-5 mm, patent or deflexed, shorter than perianth. Fertile flowers 3.5-7.5 x 1.5-3.5 mm, ovoid to oblong-urceolate, strongly constricted, very dark to blackish-blue; teeth 0.3-1 mm, white, recurved. Sterile flowers up to 20, smaller and paler than fertile flowers. Fruiting raceme lax. Capsule 8-10 x 7-10 mm, ovoid to obovoid, emarginate to apiculate. | |
Habitat in Europe |
Data will be available in the next update of this website.
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Preferred habitat in Malta |
The single population was found on upper reaches of a rocky valley side with garigue-like vegetation
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Chromosome number(s) |
2n=18, 36, 45, 54, 72 | |
Distributional range |
Europe, northwards to N. France and S.C. Russia.
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Distributional maps from various sources |
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Occurrences in Europe
(from Flora Europaea till 1993) |
Albania, Austria and Liechtenstein, the Balaeric Islands, Bulgaria, Corse, Crete, Czeck Republic and Slovakia, France (incl. Monaco and Channel Islands but excluding Corse), Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Spain (incl. Andorra but excl. the Balaerics), Hungary, Italy (mainland, excl. Sicily and Sardinia), ex-Jugoslavia, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Russia and former USSR, C W K E Sardinia, Sicily and/or Malta, Turkey (European part), Introduced in Britain (excl. Northern Ireland and Channel islands)
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Occurrences in Europe
(from Euro+Med Checklist till 2024)
Country codes
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AE(G) Ag Al Au Bl Bu By Co Cr Cy Cz Eg Ga Ge Gr He Hs Hu IJ It Ju Li LS Lu Ma Po Rf(C CS S) Rm Sa Si Sn Tcs Tn Tu(A E) Uk(K U) [Br]
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| Links & Further literature
(1 papers) |
Google Web |
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Research Gate |
Wikipedia |
JSTOR |
GBIF |
Med Checklist |
Cat. of Life |
EoL |
IPNI |
World Flora Online |
Plants of the World Online |
Vienna Virt. Herb. |
RBGE Herbarium |
KEW Herbarium |
MNHN |
Garden Database |
IUCN |
TROPICOS |
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Updates in the Flora of the Maltese Islands (Central Mediterranean) |
Stephen Mifsud (2007) |
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studies or information about this species to be included in the list above.
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| Species Images (2 images) | |
Muscari neglectum - Image Code: MUSNG-0.
| Muscari neglectum - Image Code: MUSNG-1.
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