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Gentiana acaulis

Trumpet Gentian

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Common names

Trumpet Gentian.

Scientific name

Gentiana acaulis L.

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.

Threats

Destruction of the individuals as a result of an active tourism industry, collection of plants for decoration, grazing.³.

Description and identification

Perennial herbaceous plant.

Stem short, with remnants of old leaves at base,often with sterile sprouts.

Basal leaves sessile, in rosette, lanceolate to elliptical, rare with short petioles.

Cauline leaves one pair, beneath the flowers.

Flowers single, terminal.

Calyx bell-shaped, 3 times shorter than corolla tube.

Corolla 50–70 mm long, blue, 5-lobed, the lobes shorter than corolla tube.

Fruit dehiscent capsule.

Flowering June-July⁴.

Habitat

Inhabits rocky places and meadows. Populations are fragmented, with a small number of individuals in small groups or single⁵.

Distribution in Bulgaria

Map of distribution in Bulgaria of Gentiana acaulis by floristic regions (in green)⁶:

General distribution

Map of general distribution (in green)⁷:

References

1 Bulgarian Biodiversity Act in english.

2 Dimitar Peev, Sonya Tsoneva. 2015. In: Red Data Book of the Republic of Bulgaria. Volume 1 - Plants & Fungi.

3 Dimitar Peev, Sonya Tsoneva. 2015. In: Red Data Book of the Republic of Bulgaria. Volume 1 - Plants & Fungi.

4 Dimitar Peev, Sonya Tsoneva. 2015. In: Red Data Book of the Republic of Bulgaria. Volume 1 - Plants & Fungi.

5 Dimitar Peev, Sonya Tsoneva. 2015. In: Red Data Book of the Republic of Bulgaria. Volume 1 - Plants & Fungi.

6 Стоянов К., Райчева Цв. & Чешмеджиев И. 2022. Определител на местни и чужди растения в България. Академично издателство на Аграрния университет, Пловдив. ISBN 978-954-517-313-4 www.botanica.gallery [публикуван на 25.06.2022, последна актуализация 01.07.2025] - CC-BY-NC-4.0.

5 Gentiana acaulis L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science.

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