CAMPANULA SPATULATA subsp. FILICAULIS

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

Common Name:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- Campanula sibthorpiana var. filicaulis, Campanula

spatulata var. filicaulis.

Meaning:- Campanula (L) Bell-like.

Spatulata (L) Spoon or spatula shaped.

Filicaulis (L) Having slender stems.

General description:- Thin-stemmed, short to medium, hairy perennial. Root

usually turnip-shaped (napiform). Stolons short.

Stems:-

1) 5-50 cm, filiform, flexuous, c 1-flowered.

Leaves:-

1) Margins dentate.

a) basal, inversely lanceolate, petiolate.

b) cauline, sessile or almost so, lanceolate, accuminate.

c) middle cauline, ovate or elliptical, more or less petiolate.

Flowers:-

1)1- to 5-flowered.

1) Corolla, 10 mm, infundibuliform, longer than the calyx-lobes, purple.

2) Calyx-teeth, 2-3 times as long as the ovary, lanceolate, tapering from the base

to the apex, weakly carinate, with 2-4 small glandular teeth.

3) Ovary, long narrowly obconical.

Fruit:-

1) Capsule, obconical, sulcate.

Key features:-

1) Stem, usually ± branched.

2) Corolla, (10-)20-30 mm campanulate or infundibuliform.

3) Root, thick, napiform.

4) Short non-flowering stolons usually present.

5) Pedicels, mostly more than 4 cm.

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Habitat:- Dry open shrubby vegetation, rocky places and screes up to 1600m.

Distribution:- Endemic C. & E. Crete, where it is widespread and common.

Flowering time:- Mar-June.

Photo by:- Steve Lenton