CAMPANULA JACQUINII

Family:- CAMPANULACEAE

Common Names:- None

Synonyms:- Diosphaera jacquinii, Phyteuma jacquinii, Trachelium jacquinii.

Meaning:- Campanula (L) Bell-like.

Jacquinii (L) For Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin (1727-1817), a

prominent Austrian botanist.

General description:- Hairless (glabrous) or shortly hairy perennial with a rather

stout, knotty, brittle woody stock.

Stems:-

a) 10-20 cm.

b) flowering numerous.

c) slender, ascending to erect, usually simple. densely leafy.

Leaves:-

1) Blade:

a) 2.5-5 cm.

b) elliptical.

c) margins, saw-toothed (serrate),

d) slightly leathery (subcoriaceous).

e) mostly stalkless (sessile).

Flowers:-

a) in a dense, terminal corymb.

1) Corolla:

a) c. 10 mm.

b) tube c. 5 mm, narrow, equalling the linear lobes.

c) bluish-lilac.

Fruit:-

1) Capsule:

a) ovoid-turbinate.

Key features:-

1) Perennial with a woody stock.

2) Corolla c. 10 mm, with a narrow tube equalling the linear lobes.

3) Style exserted.

Habitat:- Grows on shady cliffs and steep, rocky banks, on limestone, 1200-1900

Distribution:- Endemic mainly to the three main massifs of Crete. Rare.

Flowering time:- June-Sept.

Photos by:- Andreas Loukakis

Status:-

Conservation status (for threatened species): Rare (R) according to IUCN 1997

Protection status (for threatened species): Greek Presidential Decree 67/1981