FUMARIA GAILLARDOTII

Family and Genus:- See- FUMARIACEAE

Common Names:- Italian fumitory

Homotypic Synonyms:- None

Meaning:- Fumaria (L) Smoke.

Gaillardotii (L) For Charles Gaillardot (1814-1883), French naturalist.

General description:- Hairless annual.

Stem:-

1) 20-100 cm tall, diffuse and decumbent to scandent.

Leaves:-

1) Ultimate leaf lobes, narrowly obolanceolate.2- or 3 pinnate, with linear to narrowly

obovate lobes.

Flowers:-

1) Raceme, 10- to 15-flowered, rather dense.

2) Bracts, broad, c. equalling the straight, strongly thickened fruiting pedicels.

3) Sepals, 3-4 x c. 2 mm, dentate.

4) Corolla,11-14 mm, pale pink with the upper and inner petals tipped dark purple.

Fruit:-

1) 3 x 2·5 mm, globose to squarish, slightly keeled, tuberculate-rugose.

Key features:-

1) Sepals, 3-4 x c. 2 mm, dentate.

2) Fruit, 3 x 2·5 mm, broad, tuberculate-rugose.

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Habitat:- Roadsides, field margins, wasteground, rocky and stony shores. 0-400 m.

on various substrates.

Distribution:- Scattered in Peloponnisos and on zakinthos, lacking in the C & N of

mainland Greece, - coastal areas of the Mediterranean region, less common in the

west. Rare on Crete currently known from only three locations central west.

Flowering time:- Mar- May.

Photos by:- Zacharias Angourakis