''Cymbalaria pallida'' is a purple-flowered plant native only to mountainous parts of Italy. It belongs to the plantain family (
Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae, the plantain family, is a large, diverse family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales that includes common flowers such as snapdragon and foxglove. It is unrelated to the banana-like fruit also called "plantain." In older cl ...
).
Description
''Cymbalaria pallida'' is a perennial plant, high, with a short, pubescent and prostrate-ascending stem and opposite, fleshy, kidney-shaped leaves. Calyx is densely hairy, with rounded lobes; corolla is wide, violet-lillac, with white center tinged with yellow and purple and ovate lobes in the lower petals. Spur is cylindrical, long. These plants bloom from June to August.
[Giovanni Galetti, Abruzzo in fiore, Edizioni Menabò - Cooperativa Majambiente, 2008][Acta Plantarum]
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Distribution
This species is endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to Italy. It can be found in major mountain areas, mainly in the Apennines
The Apennines or Apennine Mountains (; grc-gre, links=no, Ἀπέννινα ὄρη or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; la, Appenninus or – a singular with plural meaning;''Apenninus'' (Greek or ) has the form of an adjective, which wou ...
of Abruzzo
Abruzzo (, , ; nap, label=Neapolitan language, Abruzzese Neapolitan, Abbrùzze , ''Abbrìzze'' or ''Abbrèzze'' ; nap, label=Sabino dialect, Aquilano, Abbrùzzu; #History, historically Abruzzi) is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy wi ...
, at an elevation of above sea level.[
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Bibliography
*Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III, in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2 ): 105–121, 2009, DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x
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External links
Plantaginaceae
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