Chrozophora tinctoria
Chrozophora tinctoria
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Ascending annual herb, often becoming woody at base, 30-100 cm. Leaves rhombic-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2-9 x 1-7 cm, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate to shallowly cordate, shallowly repand-dentate; petiole to 9 cm. Stipules 2-5 mm. Inflorescences 2-4 x 4-8 cm. Male flowers: sepals linear-lanceolate, 4 mm, stellate-pubescent outside, glabrous inside; petals yellowish, elliptic-lanceolate, 4 mm, lepidote outside, pubescent inside, hairs simple; stamens 3-12. Female flowers: sepals and petals both resembling male sepals; ovary densely lepidote; styles stellate-pubescent without, papillose within. Fruit sparingly to evenly lepidote, 8 mm diam., purple. Seeds 4 mm, pale grey. Fl. 3-9. Macchie, phrygana, open Pinus brutia forest, stony places, salt steppe, fields and pathsides, s.l.-1650 m.
