Baldellia ranunculoides

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Baldellia ranunculoides

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• Status
• Endemism
• Red Data Book category
• Distribution
• Description
• Life-form
• Flowering Period

Status

Indigenous (IN)

Endemism

not endemic

Red Data Book category

Regionally extinct? (RE?)

Distribution

Division 3 indigenousA

Division 6 indigenousB

A. Hadjikyriakou, G., Makris, C., Christofides, Y. & Alziar, G. 2004: Additions to the flora of Cyprus. – J. Bot. Soc. Bot. France 27: 31-46, B. Hand, R. 2021: An overlooked earlier record for Baldellia ranunculoides from Cyprus. – Cypricola 19: 1-3

Description

Plant 12-40 cm. Petiole 3-10(-40) cm; lamina 2-5 cm, sometimes more, linear-lanceolate, apex acute, base gradually attenuate into petiole. Pedicels 4-7 cm. Sepals broad, 2-3 mm, green. Petals pink, to 10 mm, obtuse. Achenes obliquely narrowly obovoid, 2(-3) mm, with 3 adaxial (dorsal) and 2 closely approximate abaxial (ventral) ridges, ± hairy (in Turkish specimens) or glabrous.

Source: Davis P. H. (ed.) 1984: Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 8. - Edinburgh.

Life-form

Aquatic

Flowering Period

Apr–Jul