ANTHEMIS SAMARIENSIS

Family:- COMPOSITAE

Common Name:- None

Synonyms:- None

Meaning:- Anthemis (Gr) Flowery.

Samariensis (L) From the area of Samaria western Crete.

General description:- A caespitose perennial, ± grey-villous throughout.

Stems:-

1) 15-25 cm, simple.

Leaves:-

1) Mostly basal, 2-pinnatisect, with linear, acute ultimate segments.

Flowers:-

1) Peduncles, long, straight.

2) Phyllaries, narrowly ovate, with dark brown, finely lacerate margins.

3) Receptacular scales, oblanceolate, shortly acuminate, exceeding the phylaries

in fruit.

4) Ligules large (10-17 mm), white.

Fruit:-

1) Achenes narrowly obconic-oblong, weakly 4-angled, pale brown, with a well-

developed auricle on one side.

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Habitat:- Crevices of vertical cliffs 1300-1750 m.

Distribution:- A rare Cretan endemic, known only from the Lefka Ori.

Flowering time:- Mar-July.

Photos by:- Vangelis Papiomytoglou and Fotis Samaritakis