ANTHEMIS GLABERRIMA
Family:- COMPOSITAE/Subgen. Ammanthus
Common Names:- None
Synonyms:- Ammanthus glaberrimus
Meaning:- Anthemis (Gr) Flowery.
Glaberrima (Gr) Very smooth
General description:- Glabrous or sparsely hairy annual.
Stems:-
1) 2-30 cm, flexuous.
Leaves:-
1) Leaves, pinnatisect to 3-fid or entire, more or less petiolate, fleshy.
2) Segments, distant, ovate-cuneate, more or less deeply divided or entire.
3) Lobes, subobtuse to acute.
Flowers:-
1) Capitula, up to 10 mm in diam.
2) Involucre, appressed-hairy.
3) Bracts, obtuse, the outer ovate to oblong, the inner broadly elliptical, with wide
hyaline margin.
4) Ligules, c. 2 mm, broadly elliptical, pink.
5) Receptacle, shortly conical, acute; scales lanceolate-cuneate to narrowly linear,
acute, hyaline, rather shorter than the florets, glabrous, caducous.
Fruit:-
1) Achenes 1-1·25 mm (excluding corona) and nearly as wide as long, obsoletely
ribbed, cylindrical-turbinate.
2) Corona up to 0·5 mm on the adaxial side, rather shorter to almost absent on
abaxial side, erose-lacerate, hyaline.
Key features:-
1) Ribs of achenes not very prominent, granulate or rugulose, interrupted,
2) Receptacle of achenes nearly flat.
2) Ligules c. 2 mm, sterile, pink.
Habitat:- Rocky coastal habitats, 0-50 rn.
Distribution:- A rare Ioca! endemic of Gramvnusa islands discovered by Rechinger
in 1942} and one additional locality in NW Crete.
Flowering time:- April to early July.
Photos by:- Currently none available
Protection Status:-
Greek Presidential Decree 67/81
Bern Convention
European Directive 92/43
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