Echium rosulatum
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Echium rosulatum is a plant type from the type of snake heads ( echium ) in the family of the Boraginaceae (Boraginaceae).
description
Echium rosulatum is a bristly hairy, upright growing, perennial plant that forms one to a few flower-bearing stems . It reaches heights of growth of 30 to 70 cm. The leaves are 20 to 70 mm long and 5 to 25 mm wide. Their shape is ovate to lanceolate, they are sessile and hairy with more or less short, close to protruding bristles.
The inflorescences are very loosely panicle-like and have conspicuous bracts . The calyx is 6 to 9 mm long at flowering time and extends to 10 to 14 mm when the fruit is ripe. The crown is 11 to 25 mm long, usually has a narrow corolla tube and is slightly oblique to almost regular. It is colored pink-violet. Three to four stamens protrude from the crown.
Occurrence and locations
The species is found in Portugal and northwestern Spain .
Systematics
One can distinguish between two subspecies:
- Echium rosulatum subsp. rosulatum : It occurs in Portugal and Spain.
- Echium rosulatum subsp. davaei Rouy : It occurs in Portugal.
literature
- TG Tutin et al. (Ed.): Flora Europaea, Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae . Cambridge University Press, 1972, ISBN 978-0521084895 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Benito Valdés, 2011: Boraginaceae. : Datasheet Echium rosulatum In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.