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Dorycnium pentaphyllum ssp. germanicum
Prostrate Canary Clover
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0123 0753 (2023-01-09)Copyright © 2023 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo May 23, 2022
latitude 44.81544 longitude 14.34782
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location
Adriatic Sea, island Cres, sea shore south of village Martinšćica, Kvarner bay (Rijeka region, Croatia)family
Fabaceae
notes Slo.: malocvetna španska detelja - Dorycnium germanicum (Gremli) Rikli, Dorycnium jordanii subsp. germanicum Gremli, Dorycnium sericeum (Neilr.) Borbás, Lotus dorycnium L. - Habitat: Rocky sea shore; moderately inclined terrain, southeast aspect, about 10 meters from sea shore; full sun; hot, dry, open terrain, in the reach of sea water splash; exposed to direct rain; elevation 5 m (15 feet); average precipitations ~ 1.000 mm/year, average temperature 13-14 deg C, Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil among rocks. - Comment (pertains to pictures in the Flickr album Dorycnium pentaphyllum subsp. germanicum): Dorycnium pentaphyllum subsp. germanicum is a low half-scrub loving warm, dry and sunny places. It is essentially a south European plant, however, it can be found also in the countries of east Balkan peninsula, Ukraine and Poland. Its key distinguishing traits from other similar species are long, adpressed, silver hairs on the sessile leaflets of five palmate leaves and relatively small number of very shortly petiolate flowers in the flower heads (8 – 15, Ref.:3). The traits of this find fit well to the descriptions in literature, so I have little doubts about the determination. However, two things bother me. The first is that many flower heads of this find consist of more than 15 flowers and the second is that the plants photographed, considered zero tolerant to salt (Ref.: 6), grow definitely in the reach of sea water splash during rough sea periods (and at the same time bloom so abundantly). - Ref.: (1) T. Nikolić, Flora Croatica, Vaskularna flora Republike Hrvatske (Vascular Flora of Republic Croatia) (in Croatian), Vol. 2., Alfa d.d., Zagreb (2020) p 773, (2) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 308. (3) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 368. (4) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 936. (5) 'WFO (2023): Dorycnium pentaphyllum subsp. germanicum (Gremli) Rikli. Published on the Internet; http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000163644 (accessed on: 09 Jan 2023) (6) https://daten.bayernflora.de/de/info_pflanzen.php?taxnr=1998 (accessed on: 09 Jan 2023)camera Nikon D700 / Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
contributor's ID # Bot_1469/2022_DSC8123 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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Prostrate Canary Clover (photographer)
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