BUPLEURUM EUBOEUM

Family and Genus:- See- UMBELLIFERAE/Sect. ISOPHYLLUM

Common Name:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- Bupleurum glumaceum

Meaning:- Bupleurum (Gr) Ox-rib, an ancient name used by the Greek physician

and poet Nicander.

Euboeum (L) From the Greek island of Euboea (Evvoia).

General description:- Glaucous annual.

Stem:-

1) 15-65 cm. tall erect, much branched,

Leaves:-

1) Lower, linear-oblanceolate.

2) Upper, linear.

Flowers:-

1) Umbels, lax, usually with 3-5 unequal rays.

2) Bracts, 3 short, lanceolate.

a) Bractlets. usually 5, elliptic-lanceolate, shorter than the flowers and not

enclosing them, 3-veined, herbaceous.

3) Petals, somewhat papilliate, at the bend.

Fruit:-

1) Rugose, with inconspicuous ridges.

Key features:-

1) Bractlets, usually 5, broadly elliptic-lanceolate.

2) Fruit, rugose.

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Habitat:- Mostly in coastal habitats, (dunes, saltmarshes), occasionally in

phrygana some distance inland up to 500 m.

Distribution:- Scattered in E Greece, Turkey in Europe and W Anatolia. Very rare

on Crete currently known from only one location.

Flowering time:- June-Aug

Photos by:- Thomas Giannakis