FUMARIA BASTARDII

Family and Genus:- See- FUMARIACEAE

Common Names:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- Fumaria capreolata var. bastardii.

Meaning:- Fumaria (L) Smoke.

Bastardii (L) For T. Bastard (1784-1846), French physician and

botanist.

General description:- Glabrous annual.

Stem:-

1) 20-100 cm tall, suberect to diffuse.

Leaves:-

1) 2- or 3-pinnate with linear to narrowly obovate lobes.

Flowers:-

1) Peduncles, short.

2) Racemes, 10-20-flowered.

3) Bracts, 1/3-3/4 as long as the straight, erecto-patent, somewhat thickened

fruiting pedicels.

4) Sepals, 2-3 x 1-2 mm, dentate throughout, persistent.

5) Corolla, 9-11 mm, pale pink with tips of the inner petals blotched dark purple.

Fruit:-

1) 2-2.25 mm, globose to broadly ovoid, as long as broad. obtuse to subacute,

rugulose.

Key features:-

1) Fruit, rounded to squarish.

2) Bracts, shorter than the pedicels.

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Habitat:- Disturbed ground, olive groves, waste places, roadsides, etc. 0-500 m.

Distribution:- Fairly rare and scattered in Greece not recorded outside the Aegean

area. - Mainly in W Europe and the W & C Mediterranean region. Rare on Crete

currently known only from a location E of Malia

Flowering time:- Mar- May..

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