ARENARIA GUICCIARDII

Family and Genus:- See- CARYOPHYLLACEAE/Subgen. ARENARIA

Common Name:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- None

Meaning:- Arenaria (L) Sand-dweller.

Guicciardii (L) For Jacops Guicciard, who collected plants in Greece.

General description:- Scabrid-puberulent, slightly glandular annual.

Stems:-

1) 3-20 cm. usually many, ascending or erect, rather densely leafy.

Leaves:-

1) 3-5 mm, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, subsessile or petiolate, 3- to

5-veined.

Flowers:-

1) 5-20 in dense clusters.

a) pedicels, usually not more than ½ as long as the sepals, rather stout.

2) Sepals, 4-6 mm, lanceolate, long-acuminate with an usually patent or recurved

apex, 3- to 5-veined, which are thickened, and prominent.

3) Petals, 1/3 as long as the sepals.

Fruit:-

1) Capsule, more or less equalling the sepals, narrowly cylindrical.

Key features:-

1) Bracts, not forming an involucre.

2) Stems, 3-20 cm.

3) Sepals, with patent or recurved apices.

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Habitat:- Rocky limestone slopes and screes, sometimes along mountain roads.

(400)800-1600 m.

Distribution:- Endemic to Greece, scattered in Peloponnisos and mainland

northwards. On Crete reported mainly from the four main massifs.

Flowering time:- Late Apr to June

Photos by:- None gurrently available