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Velezia rigida

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Common name

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Scientific name

Velezia rigida L.

Conservation status and threats

NOT protected species in Bulgaria.

Description and identification

Velezia rigida is an annual herbaceous hardy plant with glandular hairs, 15 (30) cm high, branched from the base. Leaves acuminate or narrowly linear, 10-20 mm long and 0.5-1 mm wide, sharp. Flowers solitary, arranged consecutively or in clusters of two in the axils of the leaves. Calyx narrowly cylindrical, 10-14 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, with 15 veins and 5 elongated pointed teeth at the top. Petals pink at the base on top with a small number of hairs. Capsule is linearly cylindrical, shorter than the calyx, at the top with 4 teeth. Seeds few in number, small, eccentrically thyroid. Flowering June-July¹.

Habitat

On dry grassy and stony places and on rocky terrains most often with limestone and andesite base².

Distribution in Bulgaria

The Black Sea coast (Varna, Burgas, Sozopol), Northeastern Bulgaria, the valleys of the rivers Struma and Mesta, Pirin, the Middle and Eastern Rhodopes, the Thracian lowlands (Plovdiv, indicated for Haskovo - Vel., 1898, Svilengrad - Podp., 1902), Strandzha, up to 1000 m altitude. The photos published here are from the Besaparski hills, which are located in the Thracian lowland between Pazardzhik and Plovdiv regions³.

General distribution

Southern Europe, Southwest and Central Asia, Caucasus⁴.

References

1 Вълев, Ст. 1966. Във: Флора на Народна Република България, том III, София.

2 Вълев, Ст. 1966.

3 Вълев, Ст. 1966.

4 Вълев, Ст. 1966.

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