TUBERARIA GUTTATA
Family and Genus:- See- CISTACEAE/Sect. SCORPIOIDES
Common Names:- Spotted rockrose, Annual rockrose.
Homotypic Synonyms:- For a full list of homotypic synonyms. See
Meaning:- Tuberaria (L) Tuber.
Guttata (L) Spotted, covered with small glandular dots.
General description:- Villous annual , very variable, often rather delicate.
Stem:-
1) Up to 30 cm, often unbranched.
Leaves:-
1) Basal rosette, often persisting to anthesis.
2) Basal and lower cauline, broadly to narrowly elliptical or obovate, exstipulate.
3) Upper cauline, linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, revolute, stipulate or not; all
leaves with stellate hairs on both surfaces or only simple hairs above.
Flowers:-
1) Yellow, 10-20mm, with a small to large purplish-brown blotch at the base of each
petal, long-pedicellate, borne in a raceme like inflorescence.
Fruit:-
1) Capsule, 3-valved.
Key features:-
1) Flowers, distinctly pedicellate.
2) Pedicels, glabrous; longer than the sepals during anthesis.
3) Outer sepals, much smaller than the inner, not accrescent.
4) Leaves, obovate to lanceolate or oblong (the uppermost linear), villous, flat (or the
uppermost with the margins ± revolute)
Habitat:- Dry open shrubby vegetation, grassy, sandy and waste places, open
woodland, sand-dunes.
Distribution:- Widespread and common throughout the Mediterranean. Rare in the
east, more common in the west of Crete.
Flowering time:- Feb-June.
Photos by:- Yannis Zacharakis
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