SPECIES DESCRIPTION
CAMPANULA JACQUINII

Family:- CAMPANULACEAE

Common Names:- None

Synonyms:- Diosphaera jacquinii, Phyteuma jacquinii, Trachelium jacquinii.

Meaning:- Campanula (L) Bell-like.
                  Jacquinii (L) For Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin (1727-1817), a
prominent Austrian botanist.

General description:- Hairless (glabrous) or shortly hairy perennial with a rather
stout, knotty, brittle woody stock.

Stems:-
   a) 10-20 cm.
   b) flowering numerous.
   c) slender, ascending to erect, usually simple. densely leafy.

Leaves:-
1) Blade:
   a) 2.5-5 cm.
   b) elliptical.
   c) margins, saw-toothed (serrate),
   d) slightly leathery (subcoriaceous).
   e) mostly stalkless (sessile).

Flowers:-
   a) in a dense, terminal corymb.
1) Corolla:
   a) c. 10 mm.
   b) tube c. 5 mm, narrow, equalling the linear lobes.
   c) bluish-lilac.

Fruit:-
1) Capsule:
   a) ovoid-turbinate. 

Key features:-
1) Perennial with a woody stock.
2) Corolla c. 10 mm, with a narrow tube equalling the linear lobes.
3) Style exserted.

Habitat:- Grows on shady cliffs and steep, rocky banks, on limestone, 1200-1900
m.

Distribution:- Endemic mainly to the three main massifs of Crete. Rare.

Flowering time:- June-Sept.

Photos by:- Andreas Loukakis

Status:-
Conservation status (for threatened species): Rare (R) according to IUCN 1997
Protection status (for threatened species): Greek Presidential Decree 67/1981