ANDRYALA INTEGRIFOLIA

Family:- COMPOSITAE

Common Names:- None

Synonyms:- Andryala corymbosa, Andryala integrifolia var. corymbosa.

Meaning:- Andryala Of uncertain etymology.
                  Integrifolia (L) With entire leaves.

General description:- Greyish-tomentose annual.

Stems:-
1) 12-80 cm, sparingly to much-branched, with sparse to dense stellate and short
     simple eglandular hairs.

Leaves:-
1) 20-80 x 3-30 mm, linear, oblanceolate, lanceolate or ovate, obtuse to acute,
    entire to pinnatisect.
2) Lower, usually narrowed at the base.
3) Upper, usually broader and sometimes semi-amplexicaul.
4) Basal, usually few.
5) Cauline, numerous, sometimes aggregated towards the base.

Flowers:-
1) Capitula, few to numerous.
2) Involucre, 7-11 x 5-10 mm.
3) Bracts, linear-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, with dense stellate and short simple 
    eglandular hairs and longer glandular hairs.

Fruit:- Achenes c. 1·5 mm

Key features:-
1) Involucre with numerous glandular hairs.
2) Involucre 7-11 x 5-10 mm.

Habitat:- Maritime sand, streambeds, abandoned fields and ruderal habitats. 0-200
m. occasionally in dry open shrubby vegetation up to 900 m.

Distribution:- In Greece almost restricted to the Aegean area. - Mediterranean
region and SW Europe, eastwards to SW Anatolia. Very rare on Crete currently
known only from the area north of Matala

Flowering time:- End of Apr to mid-June.

Photos by:- Kind permission of Saxifraga - Free Nature Images
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