Cerastium Cerastium, Lowe

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 139

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.302862

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cerastium Cerastium
status

 

21. C. vagans Lowe View in CoL , Trans. Camb. Philos. Soc. 6: 548 (1838)

(inch C. azoricum Höchst. ).

Perennial 20-40 cm, with robust, ascending flowering stems; uppermost internodes not conspicuously longer than others. Leaves 20-35 x 6-10 mm, broadly lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, hirsute. Flowers 7-11; bracts ovate, acute, with scarious margins at apex. Sepals 5-7 mm, hairy; outer ciliate in basal half, with scarious margins at apex; inner with scarious margins (0-2-0- 3 mm wide) from base to apex; petals 9-10 mm. Capsule 6-8 mm; teeth erect to somewhat patent, with revolute margins. Seeds 0-6-0-9 mm, acutely tuberculate especially along the edges. Açores. Az. (Madeira.)

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Genus

Cerastium

Loc

Cerastium Cerastium

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1964
1964
Loc

C. vagans

Lowe 1838: 548
1838
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