Viola denizliensis
Viola denizliensis
Very tiny annual plant, 0.5–2.7 cm high at flowering. Taproot usually upper part dark purple, lower part colourless and not branching. Stem very short, greenish to greenish-purple, simple or branching, erect or ascending, glabrous. Leaves usually mostly at base, sometimes scattered on stem, elliptic to spathulate, entire, tip obtuse, base attenuate, long-decurrent on the petiole, with elongate, retrorse hairs on margin. Lamina upper surface hirsute, lower surface glabrous, purplish. Stipules entire, undivided, linear, much smaller and shorter than the leaf, hirsute. Peduncles greenish to greenish-purple, glabrous, up to 1.5 cm long, longer than leaves. Bracteoles distinct, on the upper third of the peduncle, greenish to greenish-purple, translucent, glabrous, adpressed to the peduncle, 1.0 mm long Flowers not fragrant, very small, up to 4.0 mm long including spur. Sepals glabrous, with a prominent mid-vein, parallel sides and acute tip, 2.0 mm long; appendices green, glabrous, obtuse, undivided, extrorse, almost equal in length, 0.5–0.8 mm long. Petals unequal in size, 2.0–4.0 × 1.5–3.5 mm, golden-yellow; upper 2 petals largest, obovate; lateral 2 petals ovate, pointing upwards, with yellow hairs on the adaxial surface; the lowest petal small, concave, emarginated at apex, with a few and very short blackish-purple lines; spur yellow, small, flattened, glabrous, the apex rounded and turned upwards, longer than sepal appendices. Capsule globose, up to 2.0 mm in diameter, glabrous. Seeds 1.2 × 0.6 mm long, elliptical, brown, with a small colourless elaiosome.
Endemic.