Valerianella costata (Steven) Betcke

 Οικογένεια: Valerianaceae

Valerianella costata (Steven) Betcke

Valerianella carinata: Stem 8–20 cm tall, with 1–3 dichotomies, whole plant subglabrous. Lower leaves usually persistent in fruiting individuals, spathulate, obtuse. Cauline leaves usually 15–30 mm, oblong, subentire. Inflorescence hemispherical at anthesis, laxly sphaerical in fruit, subtended by rather conspicuous, oblong uppermost leaves equalling or exceeding inflorescence. Bracts oblong-oblanceolate, herbaceous. Calyx absent or present only as a short continuation of the fertile carpel. Fruit oblong, c. twice as long as broad, somewhat curved, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous; fertile loculus somewhat wider than the sterile ones and separated from them by a groove. Fruits soon deciduous.

Resembling V. carinata, but basal leaves usually withered in fruiting individuals; fruit-bearing internodes often thickened above; fruits in dense terminal clusters and usually also individual in dichotomies; fruit somewhat longer than wide, papillose, with a conspicuous block of spongy tissue behind the fertile loculus.

Μπορεί να είναι και η V. carinata. Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στα Χλωρίδα μας (η carinata), Φυτολόγιο, greekflora.gr, Flora of Greece.

Valerianella costata

Valerianella costata

Valerianella costata

Valerianella costata

Valerianella eriocarpa Desv.

 Οικογένεια: Valerianaceae

Valerianella eriocarpa Desv.

Valerianella muricata: Erect, slender, with 1–3 dichotomies; branches rather widely spreading. Lower part of stem patently or retrorsely pilose, at least on angles. Basal leaves oblanceolate, the cauline linear-oblong, erect, all entire or shallowly and remotely dentate. Flowers in small, rather dense, flat-topped terminal cymes. Bracts lanceolate-oblong, with scarious margins. Fruiting pedicels slightly swollen and clavate. Fruit small (1.5–2 mm including persistent calyx), ovoid, pilose; persistent calyx unilateral, erect, almost as long as fruit, forming an ovate, reticulate-veined auricle or fan with entire or slightly dentate margins. 

Resembling V. muricata, but persistent calyx forming a complete although asymmetrical tube, usually dentate on upper margin.

Και αυτή αβέβαιη αλλά σίγουρα άλλο είδος. Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στα Χλωρίδα μας, Φυτολόγιο, greekflora.gr, Flora of Greece.

 

Valerianella eriocarpa

Valerianella eriocarpa

Valerianella obtusiloba Boiss.

 Οικογένεια: Valerianaceae

Valerianella obtusiloba Boiss.

Μοιάζει με την Valerianella coronata, αλλά ο κάλυκας σχετικά μεγαλύτερος, τουλάχιστον διπλάσιος του καρπού, ± μεμβρανώδης, με εμφανές δίκτυο νευρώσεων; 6 λοβοί, ευρέως τριγωνικοί, ο καθένας με 3–5 αγκαθάκια σαν αγκίστρια; το εσωτερικό του κάλυκα λίγο χνουδωτό.

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Valerianella obtusiloba

Valerianella obtusiloba

Valerianella obtusiloba

Valerianella coronata (L.) DC.

Οικογένεια: Valerianaceae

Valerianella coronata (L.) DC.

Stem slender, erect, (4–)10–25 cm tall, with 1–3(–4) dichotomies. Basal leaves spathulate, subentire, often withered in fruiting individuals. Lower and middle cauline leaves oblong-oblanceolate, coarsely dentate. Fruiting heads dense, spherical. Bracts rather small, narrowly ovate, ± scarious, ciliate. Καρπός αντωοειδής έως ανάποδος κώνος, χνουδωτός, στεφανωμένος με εμφανή επίμονο κάλυκα ίσο ή λίγο μεγαλύτερο απο τον καρπό, που αποτελείται απο 6 ευρέως τριγωνικούς, σχεδόν ίσους, με δίκτυο νευρώσεων λοβούς ενωμένους στη βάση, με μικρές καμπυλωμένες μύτες στην άκρη. Το εσωτερικό του κάλυκα λείο.

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Valerianella coronata

Valerianella coronata

Valerianella coronata

Valerianella vesicaria (L.) Moench

Οικογένεια: Valerianaceae

Valerianella vesicaria (L.) Moench

Plant 5–15 cm tall, often several-stemmed, each stem with 1 or 2 dichotomies, retrorse-puberulent in lower part. Basal leaves spathulate, subentire, often retained in fruiting individuals. Lower cauline leaves oblanceolate, ± dentate; upper cauline leaves often divided into linear-oblong lobes. Flowers in dense, spherical, terminal capitula. Inner bracts ± scarious, ciliate. Fruiting calyx soon inflated to become a vesicle-like, hollow sphere c. 5 mm in diam., with 6 small teeth inflexed around an apical opening; outer surface reticulate-veined and often purplish.

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Valerianella vesicaria 

Valerianella vesicaria 

Valerianella vesicaria 

Centranthus calcitrapae (L.) Dufr.

Οικογένεια: Valerianaceae

Centranthus calcitrapae (L.) Dufr.

Όρθιο, χωρίς διακλαδώσεις ή ενίοτε διακλαδισμένο, λείο μονοετές, με μεγάλη ποικιλία στο μέγεθος αλλά συνήθως 10–30 εκ ψηλό, frequently tinged purple; stem slender, fistulose. Lower leaves simple or lobed, with long petiole and obovate, crenate blade; cauline leaves subsessile, ± pinnatisect. Flowers in one or a few corymbose cymes. Corolla pink; tube 2–3 mm long, gibbous at base; limb 5-lobed. Stamen solitary. Calyx teeth forming a conspicuous, plumose pappus in fruit.

Ένας κέντρανθος που μπορεί να έχει ύψος απο 5 εκ έως 30 εκ. με άσπρα ή ροζ λουλουδάκια. Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στα Χλωρίδα μας, Φυτολόγιο, greekflora.gr, Flora of Greece.

Centranthus calcitrapae

Centranthus calcitrapae

Centranthus calcitrapae

Centranthus calcitrapae (5 εκ)

Centranthus calcitrapae (μεγαλύτερος)

Valerianella hirsutissima Link

Οικογένεια: Valerianaceae

Valerianella hirsutissima Link

Small, erect, slender annual 5–15 cm tall; stem simple or with 1 or 2 dichotomies. Stem and leaves patently or retrosely puberulent. Lower leaves spathulate, withering in fruiting individuals; upper leaves pinnatifid into linear segments. Flowers in dense, subglobose terminal heads, falling as a unit at maturity. Bracts broadly ovate, scarious, conspicuously ciliate. Fruit ovoid, lanate; sterile loculi reduced to slender ribs. Persistent calyx larger than fruit, divided almost to base into c. 20 filiform, ciliate, uncinate lobes.

Πολύ μικρή, ξεχωρίζει απο τις υπόλοιπες απο τα πτεροσχιδή φύλλα και τον κάλυκα με τα νηματοειδή βλεφαριδωτά δόντια. Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στα Χλωρίδα μας, Φυτολόγιο, greekflora.gr, Flora of Greece.

Valerianella hirsutissima

Valerianella hirsutissima

Centranthus ruber (L.) DC.

Οικογένεια: Valerianaceae

Centranthus ruber (L.) DC.

Bushy, many-stemmed, glabrous subshrub 30–80(–100) cm tall. Leaves usually 3–8 cm, lanceolate to broadly linear, entire, somewhat glaucous. Inflorescence consisting of crowded dichasia. Corolla bright reddishpink; tube 8–10 mm, slender, with a slender basal spur 4–5 mm; lobes 5, spreading. Fruit crowned by 15–18 plumose pappus-rays.

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Centranthus ruber

Centranthus ruber

Centranthus ruber

Centranthus ruber

Valerianella discoidea (L.) Loisel.

Οικογένεια: Valerianaceae

Valerianella discoidea (L.) Loisel.

Μοιάζει με την Valerianella coronata, αλλά το εσωτερικό του κάλυκα χνουδωτό; λοβοί πάνω απο έξι με μέγεθος που ποικίλλει.

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Valerianella discoidea

 

Valerianella discoidea

Valerianella discoidea

Valerianella discoidea

Valerianella echinata (L.) DC.

Οικογένεια: Valerianaceae

Valerianella echinata (L.) DC.

Βλαστός όρθιος, 5–20 εκ ψηλός, with 1–3 dichotomies. Φύλλα βάσης συνήθως ξεραμένα κατα την καρποφορία. Lower cauline leaves spathulate, subentire, shortly ciliate or papillate on lower margins. Upper leaves oblong-oblanceolate, dentate or shallowly lobed. Flowers in dense, few-flowered, flat-topped terminal cymes and also individual in upper branch forks. Bracts oblong, herbaceous. Fruiting pedicels and upper internodes inflated and ± clavate, finally disarticulating. Καρποί in branch forks thinner than those of cymes, όλοι ασύμετροι με 1 μακρύ κεντρικό και 2 κοντά, πλευρικά καμπυλωμένα κέρατα.

Στους γύρω λόφους κι αυτή. Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στα Χλωρίδα μας, Φυτολόγιο, greekflora.gr, Flora of Greece.

Valerianella echinata

Valerianella echinata

Valerianella echinata (καρποί)

Valerianella echinata

Valerianella echinata (διογκωμένοι βλαστοί)

Valerianella echinata (φύλλα βάσης)

 

Valerianella echinata (φύλλα βλαστού)

Valeriana dioscoridis Sm. (Βαλεριάνα)

Οικογένεια: Valerianaceae

Βαλεριάνα του Διοσκουρίδη (Valeriana dioscoridis Sm.) επίσημο όνομα: Valeriana italica Lam.

Perennial up to 80 cm tall, with short rhizome bearing a cluster of fusiform root tubers. Stem usually solitary, erect, simple or sparingly branched, subglabrous. Basal leaves pinnate to pinnatifid, with 1–4 pairs of small lateral lobes and a larger, ovate, shallowly and irregularly dentate terminal lobe. Cauline leaves 1–3 pairs, much smaller with narrower lobes. Inflorescence ± lax. Corolla 6–8 mm, narrowly funnel-shaped, with 5 subequal lobes, white or often pale pinkish-mauve especially on tube. Fruit 4–5 mm, hairy on one side.

Πανέμορφο φυτό, στα βράχια των γύρω λόφων, ανθηση απο Απρίλιο μέχρι Ιούλιο (στα υγρά μέρη φαντάζομαι). Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στα Χλωρίδα μας, Φυτολόγιο, greekflora.gr, Flora of Greece.

Valeriana dioscoridis

 

Valeriana dioscoridis

Valeriana dioscoridis

Valeriana dioscoridis