Cressa cretica
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Cressa cretica is a plant from the genus Cressa in the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae).
description
Cressa cretica is a woody on the base semi-shrub whose stem up to 30 (often up to 50) cm. They are grayish-fluffy hairy, lying and heavily branched. The leaves are 2 to 10 mm long, lanceolate to egg-shaped with a heart-shaped or rounded base and a pointed to pointed upper end. Little by little they go into the bracts .
The flowers are 3 to 5 mm long and have very short flower stalks . The blunt sepals are as long as the corolla tube . The crown measures 3 to 5 mm in diameter, is whitish-pink or yellow in color and remains on the fruit.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 28.
Occurrence
Cressa cretica occurs in Europe in the Mediterranean region and extends as far as central Portugal and southeastern Bulgaria . It grows on sandy and salty soils, mostly near the sea. In addition, the distribution extends southward on the African Atlantic coast to Angola , in the Indian Ocean southward to Mozambique and Madagascar and eastward to India and Sri Lanka .
literature
- TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (Eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-08489-X , pp. 78 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Daniel F. Austin: A revision of Cressa L. (Convolvulaceae). In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. Volume 133, Number 1, 2000, pp. 27-39. doi: 10.1111 / j.1095-8339.2000.tb01535.x .
- ↑ Crssa cretica at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
