ANTHEMIS ABROTANIFOLIA
Family and Genus:- See- COMPOSITAE/Subgen. ANTHEMIS/Sect. HORITHIA
Common Names:- None
Homotypic Synonyms:- Cotula abrotanifolia.
Meaning:- Anthemis (Gr) Flowery.
Abrotanifolia (Gr) From an ancient Greek name for several fragrant-
leaved plants "wormwood leaved"
General description:- Caespitose dwarf shrub.
Stems:-
1) Flowering, 3-15 cm, with old petiole-bases at it's base.
Leaves:-
1) Up to 2·2(-3·5) cm, oblong, 1- to 2-pinnatisect, glandular-punctate,
subappressed-pubescent
2) Lobes, linear to oblong-obovate, mucronate.
Flowers:-
1) Capitula, 4-7(-9) mm diam.
2) Ligules, 3 x 1·75 mm, usually absent.
3) Involucre, hemispherical, sericeous, not umbonate.
4) Bracts, outer, ovate-lanceolate, attenuate to the acute apex, hyaline margin
absent, the rest oblong, with hyaline or pale brownish-thin, scarious margin and
apex.
5) Receptacle, shortly conical; scales reaching the base of corolla-lobes, shortly
acuminate.
Fruit:-
1) Achenes, 1·25(-1·4) x 0·75 mm, obconical-pyramidal, scarcely ribbed;
2) Pappus, absent or an auricle not more than 0·25 mm.
Key features:-
1) Young leaves, ± sparsely hairy.
2) Pappus, absent or an auricle not more than 0·25 mm.
3) Achenes, 1·25-1·5 mm.
4) Disc, 4-8(-9) mm diam.
5) Involucre, not umbonate.
Habitat:- Calcareous rocks and screes, open stony ground, flat clayey areas. (500
- 2300) m.
Distribution:- Cretan endemic of the Psiloritis, Dikti and Afendis Kavousi areas.
Rare
Flowering time:- May to early July.
Photos by:- Zacharias Angourakis & Steve Lenton
Status:-
Conservation status (for threatened species): Rare (R) according to IUCN 1997.
Protection status (for threatened species): Greek Presidential Decree 67/1981.
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