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Centaurium tenuiflorum
Slender Centaury
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0416 0938 (2016-04-07)Copyright © 2016 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Jun 22, 2010
latitude 44.39193 longitude 14.79848
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Adriatic Sea; Island Olib, 'Slatina' beach, Kvarner bay (Rijeka region, Croatia)notes Slo.: ozkocvetna tavžentroža - syn.: Erythraea tenuiflora, Erythraea latifolia auct., non Sm. - Habitat: 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. 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 ogroženih rastlinskih in živalskih vrst v rdeči seznam, Uradni list RS, št. 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. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 506. (2) I. Schӧnfelder, P. Schӧnfelder, Was blüht 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), Školska Knjiga, Zagreb (1994), p 306.camera Nikon D700/Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
contributor's ID # Bot_431/2010_DSC2846 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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