Fumana (Dunal) Spach Fumana arabica, (L.) Spach

5. Fumana (Dunal) Spach View in CoL 1

Dwarf shrubs. Leaves narrow, ovate-lanceolate to linear, acicular, alternate (rarely opposite), stipulate or exstipulate. The two outer sepals small, the three inner large, scarious, prominently veined. Petals yellow. Outer stamens sterile, moniliform. Style filiform, more or less geniculate at base. Capsule 3-veined, the valves usually patent after dehiscence.

All European species grow on dry, rocky, stony or sandy ground, often in low scrub.

Literature: E. Guinea, Cistàceas Espanolas (Boi. Inst. For. lnv. Exper. Madrid No. 71) 161-181. Madrid. 1954.

1 Leaves ± equally spaced on the stems, not or scarcely reduced above

2 Leaves ovate- to oblong-lanceolate, stipulate 1. arabica

2 Leaves linear, exstipulate

3 Procumbent; fruiting pedicels as long as or shorter than adjacent leaves, recurved from the base 2. procumbens

3 Erect or straggling-ascending; fruiting pedicels much longer than adjacent leaves, patent, with defiexed apex 3. ericoides

1 Leaves unequally spaced on the stem, ± abruptly reduced above to form small bracts in the inflorescence

4 Capsule with 3 seeds (Greece) 9. aciphylla

4 Capsule with 6-12 seeds 5 Leaves opposite, stipulate 6. thymifolia 5 Leaves alternate, usually exstipulate 6 Leaves linear-setaceous, ± terete, stipulate 8. laevipes 6 Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, trigonous or subtrigonous, exstipulate 7 Pedicels and calyx eglandular 7. paradoxa 7 Pedicels and usually calyx glandular 8 Leaves glandular-hairy; capsule with (6—)8—12 seeds 4. scoparia 8 Leaves glabrous; capsule with not more than 6 seeds 5. bonapartei

1. F. arabica (L.) Spach View in CoL , Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 2 (Bot.), 6: 359 (1836)

(inch F. viscidula (Steven) Juz. ).

Much-branched, laxly caespitose, up to 25 cm. Leaves 5-12 x 0-8-5 mm, alternate, ovate- to oblong-lanceolate, acute, flat, glandular-pubescent to glabrescent (greyish when young in var. incanescens Hausskn. ); stipules short. Flowers 1-7, forming a distinct, lax, inflorescence. Capsules (6-)8- to 12-seeded; seeds reticulate-foveolate. 5. Europe, from Sardegna to Krym. Al?Bu Cr G r It Ju Rs (K) Sa Si. F. pinatzii Rech. fil. , Anzeig. Akad. fViss. (Wien) 93: 97 (1956), described from Evvoia , Greece, differs only by its 6-seeded capsules; plants of F. arabica from the Kikladhes sometimes have only 6 seeds.