''Edraianthus sutjeskae'', or Sutjeska's rockbell, is the endemic plant of the family '' Campanulaceae ''. This species is separated from populations of '' Edraianthus serpylifolius''.Šilić Č. (1990): Endemične biljke, 3. izdanje. Svjetlost, Sarajevo, .

Description

Like other species of the genus ''

Edraianthus ''Edraianthus'' (rock bells or grassy bells) is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae. ''Edraianthus'' species are native to mountain regions of the Balkan, including Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro and Serb ...

'', this plant is a perennial, usually a height of about 2-5 (rarely to 8 cm). It is relatively high, often flattened or upright and bare, sparsely hairy.

Leaves A leaf (plural, : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant plant stem, stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", wh ...

are a little sticky, glossy, most common naked, and rarely obostranos little hairy. It length is about 10-30, sometimes up to 45 mm, and a wide and 1.5-4 mm. Whole the edge or serrated bad, a little hairy.

Bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...

s are few, narrow elongated. The grounds are enlarged and green with a purple dressing. The

calyx Calyx or calyce (plural "calyces"), from the Latin ''calix'' which itself comes from the Ancient Greek ''κάλυξ'' (''kálux'') meaning "husk" or "pod", may refer to: Biology * Calyx (anatomy), collective name for several cup-like structures ...

is long 5-10 mm, magenta or yellow, naked. It blossoms in June and July. The corolla is bell-shaped, dark purple, naked or with little hairy marbling. Ordinary debt is about 15-20 mm. Fruit is quiver with irregular flap that opens at the top and fall. The seeds are egg-shaped, flat, wide ellipsoid. Light and are naked, long around 1.2-1.4 mm wide about 1 mm.

Ecology and distribution

This rockbell is growing on the rocks and in the vegetation semisteadyed rock creeps up to the tops of high mountains in a number of communities with '' Sesleria juncifolia'' and '' Oxytropidion dinarica''. ''Edraianthus sutjeskae'' is stenoendemic to Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is described in the canyon of

Sutjeska river The Sutjeska ( sr-cyrl, Сутјеска, ; lit. "gorge or canyon") is a 35 km-long river in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a tributary of the Drina river, which it meets south of Foča. Geography The Sutjeska River could be considere ...

, on the rocks porters, and it covers the Vrtar Maglić, and Zelengora. *''Locus classicus'' is in canyon of

Bosna i Hercegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and He ...

References

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Edraianthus sutjeskae Lakušić
{{Taxonbar, from=Q15601351 Flora of Bosnia and Herzegovina Flora of Europe Campanuloideae