ASYNEUMA PICHLERI

Family and Genus:- See- CAMPANULACEAE/Sect. RANUNCULUS

Common Name:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- Campanula pichleri

Meaning:- Asyneuma, derivation uncertain.

Pichleri (L) For Thomas Pichler Austrian botanist (1828-1903).

General description:- Perennial with a ± turnip-like (napiform) stock.

Stems:-

1) 30-80 cm, simple, erect.

Leaves:-

1) Basal, usually absent at anthesis.

2) Cauline, several, subsessile, narrowly ovate, acuminate, margins serrate.

Flowers:-

1) Inflorescence, in small clusters on recurved, thread-like stems, spike-like.

2) Calyx:

a) teeth linear, 3 times as long as the ovary, patent or deflexed.

3) Corolla:

a) lobes, linear-filiform, patent to deflexed, blue or bluish-mauve.

Fruit:-

1) Capsule, pendent, ovoid, truncate, grooved or sulcate, opening, by basal pores.

Key features:-

1) Cauline leaves, several, narrowly ovate, sharply serrate.

2) Calyx teeth, linear-setaceous, patent to deflexed.

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Habitat:- Rock ledges in gorges or beneath Berberis cretica shrubs. 1700-2100 m.

Distribution:- On Greece from Sterea Ellas to the border of Albania. Also in Bosnia

and Herzegovina and W Bulgaria. On Crete known only from the Lefka Ori.

Flowering time:- June-July

Photos by:- Thomas Giannakis