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Hornungia procumbens

Prostrate Hutchinsia

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Common name

Prostrate Hutchinsia.

Scientific name

Hornungia procumbens (L.) Hayek

Conservation status and threats

The species is PROTECTED in Bulgaria by the Biodiversity Act - it is prohibited to "picking, collecting, cutting, uprooting or any other manner of destruction of specimens in their natural range in the wild", as well as "possession, keeping, movement, transport, export, trade and offering for sale or exchange of specimens taken in the wild". These bans apply to "all stages of life of the plants"¹.

Listed in the Red Data Book of Bulgaria to the category "Critically Endangered"².

Description and identification

Hornungia procumbens is an annual plant.

Stem 2−25 cm, procumbent or erect.

Lower leaves deeply lyrate-pinnatifid; upper entire, with sparse simple hairs.

Inflorescence racemose.

Petals 1−3 mm long, white, almost equal or slightly exceeding the calyx.

Fruit an elliptical to obovate or orbicular silicula.

Seeds very small, 3−10 in each loculus.

Flowering Apri-May³.

Habitat

Saline moist soils⁴.

Distribution in Bulgaria

Black Sea coast (southern – south of Pomorie town)⁵.

General distribution

Map of general distribution⁶ (green - native, purple - introduce, red - extinct⁷):

Acknowledgments

We extend our immense gratitude to Mr. Zhivko Barzov who generously shared the location of Hornungia procumbens photographed here.

References

1 Bulgarian Biodiversity Act in english.

2 Valentina Goranova & Mincho Anchev. 2015. In: Red Data Book of the Republic of Bulgaria. Volume 1 - Plants & Fungi.

3 Valentina Goranova & Mincho Anchev. 2015. In: Red Data Book of the Republic of Bulgaria. Volume 1 - Plants & Fungi.

4 K. Metodiev.

5 Valentina Goranova & Mincho Anchev. 2015. In: Red Data Book of the Republic of Bulgaria. Volume 1 - Plants & Fungi.

6 Hornungia procumbens (L.) Hayek | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science.

7 Until recently the species has been considered extinct from the Bulgarian flora. In 2005 it was re-discovered in the region of Pomorie town - Valentina Goranova & Mincho Anchev. 2015. In: Red Data Book of the Republic of Bulgaria. Volume 1 - Plants & Fungi.

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