Cerastium Cerastium, Pers. Cerastium Cerastium subsp. pindigenum

43. C. brachypetalum Pers. View in CoL , Syn. Pl. 1:520 (1805).

Annual up to 40 cm; stem with long, deflexed, patent or ascending eglandular hairs, with or without glandular hairs. Leaves up to 20 mm, the lower spathulate or obovate, the upper ovate, elliptical or oblong, obtuse to acute, hairy. Inflorescence more or less lax; pedicels 3-27 mm, bent just below the flower, with patent or ascendingappressed eglandular hairs, with or without glandular hairs; bracts herbaceous. Sepals 3-6-5 mm, lanceolate to oblonglanceolate, obtuse to acute, margin scarious, with long eglandular hairs exceeding the apex, with or without glandular hairs; petals shorter than or longer than sepals, bifid for up to | of their length, with a small auricle at base; stamens up to 10; styles 5. Capsule 6-9 mm. Seeds 0-4-1 mm, minutely tuberculate. 5., W. & C. Europe, extending northwards to S. Sweden and eastwards to Krym. All except Az Fa Fe Is Rs (N, C, E) Sa Sb.

1 Pedicels and sepals with long eglandular hairs, without glandular hairs

2 Pedicels with ascending-appressed eglandular hairs (e) subsp. tenoreanum

2 Pedicels with patent deflexed or slightly ascending hairs

3 Hairs of pedicels patent or deflexed; hairs on sepals up to 2-5 mm; capsule-teeth erect (f) subsp. atheniense

3 Hairs of pedicels usually slightly ascending; hairs on sepals up to 1-5 mm; capsule-teeth patent (d) subsp. brachypetalum

1 Pedicels and sepals with long glandular hairs mixed with the eglandular ones

4 Petals longer than sepals

5 Plant up to 7 cm, with numerous glandular and eglandular hairs; style c. 1 mm; seeds c. 1 mm (c) subsp. doerfleri

5 Plant 7-25 cm, with numerous glandular and few eglandular hairs; styles 1-5-3 mm; seeds O-5-O-7 mm

6 Stamens glabrous; styles 2-3 mm (a) subsp. pindigenum

6 Stamens ciliate; styles 1-5-2 mm (b) subsp. corcyrense

4 Petals shorter than or almost equalling sepals

7 Sepals 4-5 mm; seeds 0-5-0-6 mm; glandular and eglandular hairs of pedicels and sepals usually more or less equally abundant and not dense (g) subsp. tauricum

7 Sepals 4-6-5 mm; seeds 0-6-0-8 mm; glandular hairs usually denser and eglandular hairs fewer (h) subsp. roeseri

(a) Subsp. pindigenum View in CoL (Lonsing) P. D. Sell & Whitehead, Feddes Repert. 69: 18 (1964)

(C. pindigenum Lonsing): 7-25 cm; stems with dense glandular and few eglandular hairs. Pedicels 4-20 mm, clothed like the stem. Sepals 3-5 mm, with numerous glandular hairs and a few eglandular hairs mostly near the apex; petals longer than sepals, cuneate at base, glabrous or with a few hairs; stamens glabrous; styles 2-3 mm. Capsule 6-8 mm; teeth patent. Seeds 0-5-0-7 mm. • C. Greece(Pindhos, Aitolia).