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Rosularia cypria

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Rosularia cypria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Rosularia
Species:
R. cypria
Binomial name
Rosularia cypria

Rosularia cypria is a tufted perennial with grey-green, sticky-downy spoon-shaped fleshy leaves, 3–4 cm long, in a loose rosette above an often bare basal trunk; flowering stems to 20 cm, carrying a few more similar leaves; flowers in terminal sprays to 12 cm long with leaf like bracts of diminishing size; calyx densely glandular with 5 deep-cut, broad, lobes forming a 5-angled pyramid; corolla-lobes white, recurved, 8–10 mm long with slender points; fruits comprising 5 papery, many-seeded follicles, circa 4 mm. Flowers from April to July. Common name Kıbrıs Göbekotu.[1]

Habitat

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Frequent on limestone cliffs and walls, usually north-facing, at middle-to-high altitudes.

Distribution

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Along the Kyrenia Range from Lapta to Yayla. Endemic to Northern Cyprus.

References

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  1. ^ An Illustrated Flora of North Cyprus by D. E. Viney, Published by Koeltz Scientific Books, Konigstein, Germany, 1994, ISBN 3-87429-364-5
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