Periploca graeca
Periploca graeca
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Deciduous, twining shrub, 12-15 m, shoots to 30 m. Older shoots brownish, verrucose. Leaves elliptic to ovate-Ianceolate, rarely subrotund, 4-10 x 35 cm, apex acute or acuminate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, more rarely subcordate. Cymes to 15 cm, 3-15-flowered. Flowers 20-25 mm diam. Corolla lobes purplish-violet, oblong, retuse, pubescent above with a white, 2-3 mm, elliptic, papillose streak near base, greenish and glabrous beneath, c. 10 x 2-3 mm ; corona segments violet, filiform, shorter than lobes, ± glabrous. Follicles 6-9 cm x 5-7 mm, cylindrical, arcuate, slightly connate at apex. Fl. 4-7. Humid deciduous forests, scrub, stream-sides, more rarely all rocks, s.l.-1200 m.
1. Leaf lamina and petioles gla.brous var. graeca
1. Lower side of leaf lamina and petioles pubescent var. vestita
1. Leaf lamina and petioles gla.brous var. graeca
1. Lower side of leaf lamina and petioles pubescent var. vestita
