CARLINA BARNEBYANA

Family:- COMPOSITAE/Subgen. CARLINA

Common Names:- None

Synonyms:- None

Meaning:- Carlina (L) For Charlemagne (742-814) Emperor of Rome (whose army

was supposed to have been cured of the plague with a species of Carlina, which the

Archangel had revealed to him).

Barnebyana (L) For Rupert Charles Barnaby (1911-2000) A British

botanist.

General description:- Perennial. Sparsely covered with long, shaggy hairs, or

almost hairless.

Stem:-

1) c. 8 cm, simple.

Leaves:-

1) Up to 9 x 2 cm, linear-oblanceolate pinnatisect, undulate, with a spinose margin.

Flowers:-

1) Capitula, 15-20 mm diam, solitary.

2) Outer involucral bracts 6 mm.

3) Inner bracts reddish-purple above and beneath, at least in the apical part

(sometimes white towards the base).

Fruit:-

1) Achenes c. 3 mm.

2) Pappus c. 8 mm.

Key features:-

1) Inner involucral bracts reddish-purple above, at least towards the apex

2) Not more than 10 cm.

3) Leaves glabrescent.

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Habitat:- Crevices of hard limestone cliffs, usually near the coast 0-150(-400) m.

Distribution:- Endemic to Crete and S. Karpathos. Locally common within it's

small distribution area.

Flowering time:- June-Sept.

Photo by:- Fotis Samaritakis