Solenopsis antiphonitis
Chromosome numbers
2n = 28A
A. Hand, R. 2009: Supplementary notes to the flora of Cyprus VI. – Willdenowia 39: 301-325
Distribution
Altitudinal range
200–275 mD
D. Hand, R. 2006: Supplementary notes to the flora of Cyprus V. – Willdenowia 36: 761-809
Description
Acaulescent, slender annual. Leaves rosulate, 6-18 mm in total length; lamina glabrous, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 2-8 × 1.5-7 mm, margins entire or occasionally inconspicuously undulate-sinuate, base truncate, subtruncate or rounded, abruptly narrowed into a petiole, apex rounded, nervation obscure; petiole 4-11 mm long, longer than the lamina. Floral pedicels 14-40 mm long, 1.5-2.5 times longer than the leaves, lengthening in fruit to 5.5 cm, green, usually becoming purplish with age; bracteoles lanceolate, (1-)2, near the middle of the floral pedicels, glabrous or bearded at the tip with 1-3 small setae, or with 1-4 lateral cilia, 1.8-2.5 mm long, with (1-)2-4 small lobes near the base, usually in pairs, sometimes 3. Calyx 2-2.5 mm long, lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, 1.3-1.7 mm long. Corolla 5-6.5 mm long, tube 3-3.5 mm long, dorsally lilac in bud, turning white tinged lilac with age, lobes white internally, tinged lilac at least towards the margins, the upper 2 oblong-lanceolate, acute, the lower 3 oblong or obovate, cuspitate or truncate, throat yellow, papillae at the throat 0.13-0.25(-0.38) mm long. Stamens shortly exerted from the tube, filaments 2.5-3 mm long, anthers 0.8-1 mm, lilac, the lower papillate at the base and bearded at apex, the tube shortly scabrid. Fruit a bilocular capsule, 2-3 × 2-2.5 mm, ellipsoid, laterally compressed, slightly furrowed longitudinally along the line of the septum, crowned at maturity by the persistent calyx lobes. Seeds numerous, ellipsoid, (0.33-)0.36-0.38 × (0.20-)0.23-0.25 mm, shining brown, (mature seeds examined with a stereoscope 40 × showed no longitudinal striations).
Source: Hadjikyriakou G. & Hand R. 2006: Solenopsis antiphonitis Hadjik. & Hand, sp. nov., p. 781-785. - In: Hand R. (ed.), Supplementary notes to the flora of Cyprus V. - Willdenowia 36: 761-809.
Source: Hadjikyriakou G. & Hand R. 2006: Solenopsis antiphonitis Hadjik. & Hand, sp. nov., p. 781-785. - In: Hand R. (ed.), Supplementary notes to the flora of Cyprus V. - Willdenowia 36: 761-809.