CAMPANULA PELVIFORMIS

Family and Genus:- See- CAMPANULACEAE/Sect. CAMPANULA

Common Name:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- None

Meaning:- Campanula (L) Bell-like.

Pelviformis (L) Shallowly cupped, shaped like a shallow bowl.

General description:- Perennial herbs, usually with white latex when cut.

Stem:-

1) 20-30 cm, ascending, simple or somewhat branched, hispid.

Leaves:-

1) generally alternate.

a) Basal, c. 20 cm, not laciniata, ovate, acute, hispid, margins crenate, petiolate

2) Cauline:

a) similar, but sessile.

Flowers:-

1) Often large and showy, borne in heads.

2) Corolla, about 30 mm. long, broadly campanulate, ventricose, blue-violet-

occasionally white.

a) Stigmas, 5.

b) Ovary, 5-locular.

3) Calyx-teeth, oblong-ovate, acuminate, 3 times as long as the ovary.

a) appendages, ovate-orbicular, almost as long as the teeth, deflexed.

4) Sepals:

a) oblong-ovate. 3 times longer than the ovary.

Fruit:-

1) Capsule.

Key features:-

1) Basal leaves, c. 20 cm, not cut into slender lobes (laciniata).

2) Corolla, broadly tubular-campanulate to campanulate.

3) Stems, ascending, simple or sparsely branched.

4) Stigmas, 5.

5) Ovary, 5-locular.

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Habitat:- Rock ledges, rocky slopes, stony places in dry streambeds, road

embankents, stone walls in villages. 0-850(-1100) m.

Distribution:- Endemic to Central and East Crete, where it is widespread and fairly

common.

Flowering time:- End of May to early June.

Photos by:- Steve Lenton