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Cliff Path, Hermanus, Western Cape, SOUTH AFRICA
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Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil
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Chiriqui, Panama
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Florida, United States
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Photo taken in or near Amani Nature ReserveEast Usambara Mountains, TanzaniaBy N.J. CordeiroPost-Production by J. Quicho
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Pargas, Finland Proper, Finland
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Tahoma, California, United States
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shrub 2-3 m, stems green, winged; pedicels and calyx green, corolla bright pink flushed purple inside, anthers brown, stigma green. Photo Project web address:
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Centaurium tenuiflorum (Hoffmanns. & Link) Fritsch, syn.: Erythraea tenuiflora, Erythraea latifolia auct., non Sm.Slender Centaury, DE: Tausendgldenkraut, CR: njenocvjetna kiicaSlo.: ozkocvetna taventroaDat.: June 22. 2010Lat.: 44.39193 Long.: 14.79848Code: Bot_431/2010_DSC2846Habitat: sea shore, flat terrain, partly grassland; calcareous, skeletal, humid ground; full sun; exposed to direct rain; elevation 10 m (33 feet); average precipitations ~ 1.000 mm/year, average temperature 13-15 deg C, Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Adriatic Sea; Island Olib, 'Slatina' beach, Kvarner bay, Rijeka region, Croatia EC.Comment: Centaurium tenuiflorum is a typical Mediterranean plant, which is quite common along sea shores of Adriatic islands. Otherwise the plant grows in the entire Mediterranean. It requires humid ground. So, it is often found close to sea on marshy ground, near springs and half salt lakes, which often form in small bays along the law land coast.There are several other quite similar species in this genus growing in Mediterranean. Typical traits of Centaurium tenuiflorum are clustered, flat-topped flowers, which have short flower stalks and narrow calyx tube of only about 1 mm diameter. Also there are no ground rosettes leaves. Two ground leaves are almost completely withered at the time of flowering. The pictures were taken on the island Olib in Croatia, but the plant can be (still) found along Slovenian sea shore. It is rare there and considered critically endangered facing extinction in Slovenia.Protected according to: Pravilnik o uvrstitvi ogroenih rastlinskih in ivalskih vrst v rdei seznam, Uradni list RS, t. 82/2002 (Regulation of enlisting of endangered plant and animal species onto Red List, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 82/2002) (2002). Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "E" representing a critically endangered species.Ref.:(1) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 506. (2) I. Schnfelder, P. Schnfelder, Was blht am Mittelmeer? Kosmos (2000), p 171.(3) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 176.(4) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske (Flora of Croatia) (in Croatian), kolska Knjiga, Zagreb (1994), p 306.
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Warren Grove, New Jersey, United States
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Black Earth, Wisconsin, United States
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Calolisianthus speciosus (Cham. & Schltdl.) Gilg(sin. hom. Irlbachia speciosa (Cham. & Schltdl.) Maas)GENTIANACEAELocal: SMPW, APA Gama Cabea de VeadoRef: a) Salles, A.J.H. Jardim Botnico de Braslia, 2007; b) Lista de Espcies da Flora do Brasil. Jardim Botnico do Rio de Janeiro, 2010.
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Central Singapore, Singapore
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Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
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Pambak Mountains, Armenia
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Gentiana verna ssp. verna L., syn: Gentiana verna ssp. alataSpring Gentian, DE: Frlings-EnzianSlo.: spomladanski svi, spomladanski zaspanekDat.: May 11. 2015 Lat.: 46.43825 Long.: 13.6339Code: Bot_874/2015_DSC6462, elevation 1.800 m (5.900 feet),File names: from Gentiana-verna_raw_10 to Gentiana-verne_raw_15.andDat.: June 13. 2012Lat.: 46.43707 Long.: 13.63877, elevation 1.840 m (6.000 feet),Code: Bot_629/2012_IMG9735File names: from Gentiana-verna_raw_20 to Gentiana-verne_raw_21.Habitat: stony grassland, near road side, full sun; dry, calcareous ground, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 1 - 3 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: nutrients poor soil.Place: Mt. Mangart region, Mangart's flats, along the Mt. Mangart's alpine road, beneath and above the last tunnel, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC Comment: Gentiana verna is probably the most common and well known spring time species of this large, varied and beautiful genus. It grows mainly on nutrients poor grassland, largely at low elevations. However, it quite often climbs up to subalpine, sometimes even to alpine elevations. Here it can be easily falsely recognized as some other similar alpine species like Gentiana bavarica, Gentiana nivalis, Gentiana terglouensis, Gentiana favratii (syn.: G. orbicularis) or Gentiana pumila. All of these have beautiful, strikingly blue flowers of similar shape. Its best recognition trait are the lowest leaves, which are grouped in ground rosette (a more or less dense radiating cluster of leaves at the ground). The leaves are tapering to (not too) sharp pointed apex, have a distinct middle nerve and are up to 2 cm long. The lowest few rosette leaves (sometimes only one or two!) are significantly larger than other leaves - in average about twice as large, and are often hidden under surrounding greenery (look carefully at picture 10.). The second easy recognised discriminating parameter is presence of sterile rosettes (stems without flowers), which indicates a perennial plant and thus separates it from Gentiana nivalis, which is an annual plant. Ref.:(1) Rothmaler 3, Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, 11. Aufl., Elsevier, Spectrum (2007), p 391. (2) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007) (in Slovene), p 506. (3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 18.(4) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora sterreich Liechtenstein, Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 695.
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Colorado, United States
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United States
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Orlando, Florida, United States