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Gypsophila nodiflora
Gypsophila nodiflora
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Syn: Saponaria nodiflora
Perennial with few, 30-60 cm, stout, erect, red-suffused stems, with several branches in the upper half, glabrous bclow, glandular-hairy above. Leaves fleshy, mostly congested at the base, the basal glabrous, short-petioled, broadly obovate spathulate, 3-5-nerved, obtuse, rounded or apiculate, stern leaves smaller, sessile, ± glandular-hairy. Inflorescence dichasial with lax, sessile, axillary, semiverticillate clusters. Bracts lanceolate-acuminate, glandular-hairy. Pedicels absent. Calyx tubular, 6-8 mm, glandular-hairy, teeth oblong, obtuse to apiculate. Petals pink, 12-15 mm, obovate-cuneate, emarginate. Seeds with obtuse and acute tubercles. Fl. 5-6. Eroded shady banks, 900-1300 m.
Endemic; Ir.-Tur. element. A very distinct and remarkable relict with the habit of Saponaria; without close allies.
