SPECIES DESCRIPTION
VERONICA GLAUCA subsp KAVUSICA
Including:- Subsp. glauca.
Family and Genus:- See- PLANTAGINACEAE/Sect. POCILLA
Common Names:- None
Homotypic Synonyms:- None
Meaning:- Veronica (L) For Saint Veronica, who wiped the sweat from Christ's
face.
Glauca (L) With a white or greyish bloom.
Kavusica (L) From the area of Afendis Kavousi, East Crete.
General description:- Annual, usually much-branched.
Stems:-
1) 5-20 cm appressed-pubescent to patent-hirsute.
Leaves:-
1) Blade triangular-ovate, margins, crenate-serrate.
2) Petiole, ciliate.
Flowers:-
1) Racemes, terminal, with leaf-like lower bracts.
2) Corolla, 6-8 mm in diam., usually brilliant blue.
3) Pedicels, fruiting up to 1.5 times as long as the subtending bract, suberect or
often recurved.
4) Style 1. 6-25 mm.
Fruit:-
1) Capsule, 2.5-5 x 3-6 mm, truncate at the apex.
2) Seeds, 7-14,1.2-2.1 mm in diam., semi-globose, excavate on one side.
Key features:-
1) Fruiting pedicels, up to 1.5 times as long as subtending the bract,
2) Style, 1.6-25 mm.
3) Capsule, truncate at the apex.
4) Corolla, 6-8 mm diam.
Habitat:- Dry open shrubby vegetation, stony pastures, vineyards, olive groves,
mainly at low altitude, occasionally to 2000 m.
Distribution:- Endemic to Crete and Kefallinia. Fairly rare on Crete.
Flowering time:- Feb-June, depending on altitude.
Photos by:- Dr. Armin Jagel
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VERONICA GLAUCA subsp GLAUCA Back to Top
Homotypic Synonyms:-
Resembling Subsp. kavusica, but differering in the following characters
1) Fruiting pedicels patent at the base, curved upwards below the capsule, usually
eglandular, at least twice as long as the subtending bract;
2) Corolla, 14-17 mm in diam.
3) Style, 3-5 mm.
Habitat:- As for Subsp. kavusica
Distribution:- See map above
Flowering time:- Feb-June, depending on altitude
Photos by:- None currently available