Viola scorpiuroides
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Viola scorpiuroides is a species of the violet genus( Viola ).
description
Viola scorpiuroides is a dwarf shrub that reaches heights of 10 to 30 centimeters. The stem is corky and woody. The leaves are 2 to 5 cm long and 0.5 to 1.2 cm wide, spatulate with a clear stalk, entire, almost glabrous and pointed. The stipules are triangular-sub-like. The petals are 8 to 12 millimeters long and bright yellow in color; the spur is 3 to 4 mm long and blue-violet.
The flowering period extends from January to March (rarely from December to April).
Occurrence
Viola scorpiuroides occurs in Greece ( Kythira , Antikythira and Crete ), Libya ( Cyrenaica and Marmarica ) and in northwestern Egypt . In Crete, the species grows on gypsum and other lime-poor soils on Neogen in rocky Phrygana and in dry rock crevices at altitudes of 0 to 600 meters.
supporting documents
- Loutfy Boulos: Flora of Egypt. Volume 2 (Geraniaceae - Boraginaceae) . Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo 2000, ISBN 977-542-922-6 , p. 116.
- Werner Greuter , Karl Heinz Rechinger : Flora of the island of Kythera, at the same time the beginning of a nomenclature review of the Greek vascular plant species . In: Boissiera. Volume 13, 1967, pp. 58-59.
- Saiyad Masudal Hasan Jafri: Violaceae. In: Syed Irtifaq Ali, Saiyad Masudal Hasan Jafri (ed.): Flora of Libya. Volume 13, Al Faateh University, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, Tripolis 1977, pp. 1-3.
- Ralf Jahn, Peter Schönfelder: Excursion flora for Crete . With contributions by Alfred Mayer and Martin Scheuerer. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 1995, ISBN 3-8001-3478-0 , p. 195 .