SPECIES DESCRIPTION
FIBIGIA LUNARIOIDES
Family and Genus:- See- CRUCIFERAE
Common Names:- None
Homotypic Synonyms:- Acuston perenne.
Meaning:- Fibigia Meaning unknown.
Lunarioides (L) Resembling Lunaria.
General description:- Much-branched perennial shrub or shrublet. Whole plant
greyish-green, with a mixture of stellate and longer, simple or forked hairs.
Stems:-
1) 1-4, erect, rigid 10-30 cm, woody at the base, subcaespitose, with numerous
leafy shoots.
Leaves:-
1) Basal, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptical, sinuate-dentate.
2) Cauline, leaves several, oblong-oblanceolate.
Flowers:-
1) Raceme, not more than 5 cm in fruit.
2) Pedicels, 5-15 mm.
3) Sepals, 7-9 mm.
4) Petals, 12-16 mm, lemon yellow.
Fruit:-
1) Silicula, 12-22 x 9-18 mm, elliptical to orbicular.
Key features:-
1) Plant, usually less than 30 cm, with numerous vegetative shoots at the base.
2) Sepals, 7-9 mm.
3) Raceme, less than 10 cm in fruit.
4) Leaves, with lanate indumentum.
5) Silicula, at least 9 mm wide, not more than twice as long as wide.
Habitat:- Crevices of coastal limestone cliffs, 0-200(-400)m also on small islands.
Distribution:- Not known outside the Aegean area, An Aegean endemic. On Crete
previously known only from the islands of Paximadia and Gianysada. Recently
(2020) discovered by Christopher Cheiladakis in the area of Heralion
Flowering time:- Mar-Apr
Photos by:- Christopher Cheiladakis
