BUPLEURUM TRICHOPODUM

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

JUNCEA.

Common Name:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- Bupleurum gerardi

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

and poet Nicander.

Trichopodum (L) With a hairy-stalk/foot.

General description:- Slender, erect, delicate, annual.

Stems:-

1) Up to 50 cm.

Leaves:-

1) Lower, long-petiolate, narrowly oblanceolate to spathulate, obtuse or shortly

acuminate.

2) Upper, sessile, linear, subcordate to amplexicaul, acuminate.

Flowers:-

1) Umbels, distinctly pedunculate.

1) Rays, 2-4(-6), long, slender, subequal, filiform.

2) Peduncles, filiform.

3) Bracts, 1/6 to 1/2 as long as the rays, 1-3(-5), linear to ovate-lanceolate,

acuminate, veins (1-)3-5;

a) bracteoles, exceeding the flowers, about equalling the fruit, linear, acuminate,

veins inconspicuous.

Fruit:-

1) 2-3 mm, oblong; ridges slender, prominent.

Key features:-

1) All umbels, distinctly pedunculate.

2) Bracteoles, exceeding the flowers, linear.

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Habitat:- Dry open shrubby vegetation, dry grassland, fallow fields, rock ledges,

open scrub and woodland. 0-900(-1700) m.

Distribution:- E. and S. Greece the Aegean region and S. W. Asia. On Crete

confined to the south side of the Lefka Ori and Dikti mountains.

Flowering time:- Apr-June.

Photo by:- Dr. Armin Jagel