CORRIGIOLA LITORALIS subsp. LITORALIS
Family and Genus:- See- CARYOPHYLLACEAE
Common Name:- Strapwort
Homotypic Synonyms:- None
Meaning:- Corrigiola (L) Shoe-thong, (reference to the slender stems).
Litoralis (L) Growing by the sea-shore.
General description:- Annual, covered with a waxy bloom, with a slender taproot.
Stems:-
1) Decumbent or ascending up to 25 cm.
Leaves:-
a) cauline, linear-oblanceolate obtuse, entire.
b) basal, similar to the cauline, not fleshy.
1) Stipules small, scarious.
Flowers:-
1) In dense, terminal and axillary cymose clusters.
2) Inflorescence-branches, with leafy bracts at the base.
3) Sepals, c. 1 mm, slightly longer than the whitish petals.
Fruit:-
1) 1-1.5 mm. A trigonous achene enclosed in the persistent calyx.
Habitat:- Flat clayey areas in dolines, sandy ground, periodically water-logged.
0-800(-1300 m.
Distribution:- W., C. & S. Europe; occasional as a casual elsewhere. On Crete in
the west. on Omalos and Askifos plains in the Lefka Ori and west of the Dikti
mountains in the east.
Flowering time:- Apr-Aug and sporadically at other times.
Photos by:- Fotis Samaritakis
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