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Petromarula

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Genus of flowering plants

Petromarula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Subfamily: Campanuloideae
Genus: Petromarula
Vent. ex R.Hedw.
Species: P. pinnata
Binomial name
Petromarula pinnata
(L.) A.DC.
Synonyms
  • Phyteuma pinnatum L.
  • Petromarula pinnata var. pubescens A.DC.
  • Petromarula oxyloba Gand.
  • Petromarula pinnata f. oxyloba (Gand.) Hayek

Petromarula is a genus of plants in the family Campanulaceae. There is only one known species, Petromarula pinnata, endemic to the island of Crete in the Mediterranean. The name "Petromarula" means "rock lettuce" in Greek, a reference to the plant's traditional use in salads.

Description

Petromarula pinnata is a robust, medium to tall perennial, minutely hairy above. Leaves mostly in a large basal rosette, pinnate to pinnately-lobed, the lower long-stalked; leaflets oval to oblong, coarsely toothed. Flowers pale blue, 9–10 mm, borne in large rather narrow panicles; corolla with 5 spreading to recurved linear lobes. Capsule opening by 3 pores in the middle. Flowers April–May.

Habitat

Rock crevices, cliffs and old walls.

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References

  1. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Lammers, T.G. (2007). World checklist and bibliography of Campanulaceae: 1-675. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  3. West Crete flowers, rock lettuce, Petromarula pinnata
  4. Mediterranean Wild Flowers, Marjorie Blamey & Christopher Grey-Wilson, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993, ISBN 0 00 219901 7

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Taxon identifiers
Petromarula
Petromarula pinnata


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