Centaurium tenuiflorum
Centaurium tenuiflorum
Ssp acutiflorum: Sivri gelindüğmesi; Ssp tenuiflorum: İnce gelindüğmesi
Annual, 15-25 cm, basal rosette absent or with only few leaves; stem with 5-10 internodes, usually only branched above. Cauline leaves ovate to elliptical, increasing upwards. Inflorescence a dense cyme with suberect branches, rarely 1-flowered. Flowers 7-14 mm. Calyx nearly equalling corolla tube.
1. Indistinct basal leaf rosette usually present; stem with 7-10 internodes usually longer than cauline leaves; calyx 6-10 mm; corolla tube 7-11 mm, not constricted above; corolla lobes 4-9 mm, entire, deep pink to purple subsp. tenuiflorum
1. Basal leaf rosette absent; stem with 5-7 internodes usually shorter than cauline leaves; calyx 5-8 mm, corolla tube 7-9 mm, constricted above; corolla lobes 2-3 mm, notched at apex, pale pink subsp. acutiflorum
Distribution of species: N.W. Africa, W. & S. Europe, Cyprus, Crimea, Caucasia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon. Medit. element.
