Jasione orbiculata

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Common names

Scientific name

Jasione orbiculata Griseb. ex Velen.

Conservation status and threats

NOT protected species in Bulgaria.

Description and identification

Jasione orbiculata is a caespitose, perennial plant, with several decumbent to ascending flowering stems 2-10 (-15) cm long, and usually numerous vegetative rosettes; sometimes matforming with rooting, procumbent vegetative stems with several years’ growth before flowering. The leaves (10-15 x 1.5-3 mm) are oblanceolate to spathulate, obtuse, entire to slightly and irregularly dentate, not or very rarely undulate, ciliate at the base. Outer involucral bracts are ovate to orbicular-obovate, rarely lanceolate or oblanceolate, 4-9 x 3-7 mm, incise-serrate with acuminate teeth, ciliate at the base, ± pilose-tomentose within. Pedicels are 1-2 mm, more or less equalling the ovary. Calyx teeth are 1.5-2 (-2.5) mm, linear-lanceolate to subulate, glabrous, rarely ciliate. The corolla is blue. The flowering period is July and August^[1].

Habitats

Rocky meadows and grassland, stabilised screes and gravel^[2].

Distribution in Bulgaria

in the following mountains: Western and Middle Stara Planina, Osogovska, Pirin, Rila, Sredna gora (Western), Western and Middle Rhodopes; from (1300) 1400 to 2800 meters above sea level^[3].

General distribution

The mountains of the Balkan Peninsula, Romania and Italy^[4].

Sources

[1] Attila BARTÓK. 2014. Rediscovery of Jasione orbiculata Griseb. ex Velen. – a critically endangered species – in the Retezat Mountains (Southern Carpathians) - Contribuţii Botanice – 2014, XLIX: 43-48 Grădina Botanică “Alexandru Borza”. Cluj-Napoca.

[2] Attila BARTÓK, 2014.

[3] Анчев, М. 2012. В: Флора на Република България, том ХI. Академично издателство "Проф. Марин Дринов". София.

[4] Анчев, М. 2012. В: Флора на Република България, том ХI. Академично издателство "Проф. Марин Дринов". София.

Jasione orbiculata на български

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