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P. cretica (Tausch, 1828)
P. peregrina (Rauhlin, 1869)
P. peregrina var. cretica (Huth, 1891)
P. foeminea var. cretica (Gürke, 1903)
P. officinalis var. glabra (Hayek, 1927)
P. rhodia (Stearn, 1941) |
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| Plant: |
Ploidy: |
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Growth Type: |
herbaceous / perennial |
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Roots: |
tap roots thickened, slightly fusiform, up to 2.5cm in diameter, lateral roots carrot-shaped |
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plant totally glabrous except carpels and occasionally lower surface of leaves |
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| Leaves: |
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lower leaves biternate, all leaflets segmented;
segments 23-95, linear, lanceolate to ovate,
5-10cm long, 0.5-4.5cm wide |
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| Flowers: |
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# flowers/stem: |
solitary |
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Bracts: |
involucrate bracts 1-2, leaf-like |
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Sepals: |
3 or 4, ovate-orbicular, mostly rounded at the apex, purple at the periphery |
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Petals: |
7, white, orbicular, oblong or nearly rhomboid,
4-5cm long, 2.5-4cm wide |
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Flower Colour: |
white |
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Filaments: |
purple |
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Anthers: |
yellow |
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Disk: |
flat, 0.5-1mm high, tomentose |
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| Fruit: |
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# of Carpells: |
2-4, rarely 1 |
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Carpell: |
tomentose, hairs 2.0-2.5mm long, pink or brown-yellow |
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Style / Stigma: |
stigmas red, 1.5-2mm wide |
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Follicles / Ovary / Ovules: |
follicles ellipsoid, ca. 3.8cm long, 1.5cm in diameter |
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Seeds: |
oblong, black, 7-8mm long, 5-6mm wide |
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Geogr. Distr.: |
confined to three Greek islands: Crete, Karpathos and Rhodos |
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Countries: |
Greece |
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