Polygala major, Jacq.
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Plazi |
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Polygala major |
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11. P. major Jacq. View in CoL , FI. Austr. 5: 6 (1778)
(incl. P. moldavica Kotov ).
Stems 15-60 cm, suberect or ascending from a woody stock, sparsely puberulent. Leaves glabrous or sparsely puberulent, the basal narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, the others lanceolate to linear. Racemes with (10-)30-60 flowers; bracts 3-6 mm, caducous. Flowers reddish-purple to violet-blue, rarely milky white. Wings 9-13 mm (10-15 mm in fruit), ovate-orbicular to ovate. Corolla-tube 9-14 mm, bent upwards. Gynophore 3-4 mm in fruit. Capsule 5-6 x 4-5-5 mm, oblong, narrowly winged. Strophiole with lateral lobes shorter than central. 2n = 32. Meadows. S.E. Europe, extending westwards to Italy and S. Czechoslovakia. Al Au Bu Cz Gr Hu It Ju Rm Rs (W, K) Tu. Variable, especially in size and colour of flowers and shape of wings.
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Polygala major
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981 |
P. major
| Jacq. 1778: 6 |