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Thursday 28 April 2016

Pimpinella cypria Boiss. - Άνισος η κυπρία - Endemic to Cyprus


Endemic to Cyprus

Pimpinella cypria, common name Cyprus Burnet-saxifrage and locally Kıbrıs Pimpinela, is a herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the Carrot family (Apiaceae).

Pimpinella cypria is an erect soft-haired perennial to 70 cm with stout woody rootstock clad in old leaf-sheaths; stems furrowed; basal leaves pinnate with 3-5 oval blunt-toothed and lobed segments to 4 cm long; stem leaves few, similar or with narrow divisions; umbels terminal, in a loose panicle, with 6-14 rays; flowers many in each umbellule, the petals dirty white unequally 2-lobed, about 1 mm. Fruit narrowly oval, 4 mm. Flowers from April to May.
Limestone fissures in many north-facing shady spots.
In the Kyrenia Range from Kornos to Yaila . Endemic to north Cyprus
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Photos Chaleuka 27/4/2016 by George Konstantinou

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