''Oxytropis prenja'' (G. Beck) G. Beck in Reichenb. & Reichenb. Fil. (synonyms: ''O. halleri'' Bunge ex Koch var. ''prenja'' G. Beck, in Bosnian ''Prenjska osivnica'' (Prenj's locoweed) or ''Prenjska oštrica'') is a species of flowering

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...

in the legume

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Description

''Oxytropis prenja'' is a long standing turf plant with a fully shortened stem, up to around (4-) 5–10 cm.

Root In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They are most often below the sur ...

it is strong, thick and branched, deeply penetrating into the substrate. Its

shoot In botany, a plant shoot consists of any plant stem together with its appendages, leaves and lateral buds, flowering stems, and flower buds. The new growth from seed germination that grows upward is a shoot where leaves will develop. In the spri ...

s are upright, covered by attached white and black hairs.

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 ...

these form dense rosette. They are plumose, with short stem. It consists (5), 6-7 (-9) pairs of leaves, about 8 mm long, and 4–5 mm wide. The leaves are ovate to lancet, at the bottom of a rounded, sitting, and pointed at the top; both of sides are covered with long white flattened hairs, around the perimeter light inwards, and twisted edge. The plant

blossoms In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus ''Prunus'') and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring. Colloquially, flowers of orange are referred to as such as wel ...

in July. Vertical cluster is a compact head, which is formed by many flowers, where the blossom stalk is longer than the list in which the armpit. Individual flowers are 15–20 mm long, or sitting on a short stalk. The cup is a tubular-bell, the outside covered with long, more or less protruding white hair and short black flattened hair. Calyx teeth are narrowly triangular, long around 3 mm, and 3,5-4 times shorter than tube. Naked crown is purple-blue.

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s are elongated lanceolate, about the same length we say and a calyx, and unjustly; it has black and white attached hairs.

Fruit In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particu ...

a are elongated ovoid and very swollen light pods, about 14–18 mm long that suddenly narrows in long, outwardly curved, beak. It is densely covered with long flattened white and black hairs. It opens along the belly seam, in the upper third of the legume. The

seed A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering, along with a food reserve. The formation of the seed is a part of the process of reproduction in seed plants, the spermatophytes, including the gymnosperm and angiospe ...

s are kidney.

Ecology and distribution

The plant is growing in the highest band of Herzegovinian high mountains, built of limestone rocks, at altitudes around 1900–2220 m. It is overwhelming the mountain heliophyte. ''Oxytropis prenja'' is

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Dinaric mountains The Dinaric Alps (), also Dinarides, are a mountain range in Southern and Southcentral Europe, separating the continental Balkan Peninsula from the Adriatic Sea. They stretch from Italy in the northwest through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and He ...

Hercegovina Herzegovina ( or ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, Hercegovina, separator=" / ", Херцеговина, ) is the southern and smaller of two main geographical region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being Bosnia. It has never had strictly defined geograp ...

Prenj Prenj ( sr-cyrl, Прењ) is a mountain range in the Dinaric Alps of southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in eastern Herzegovina near Mostar, Jablanica and Konjic. The highest peak is ''Zelena glava'' at . Prenj massif has at least 11 peaks ...

Čvrsnica Čvrsnica ( sr-cyrl, Чврсница, ) is a mountain in the Dinarides of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in northern Herzegovina. Most of the mountain is located in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton municipalities of Mostar and Jablanica, while t ...

, and

Vran Vran ( sr-cyrl, Вран) is a mountain in the municipality of Tomislavgrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has an altitude of . See also *List of mountains in Bosnia and Herzegovina List of mountains in Bosnia and Herzegovina: References * ...

. ''Locus classicus'' is

(name!) (Beck, G. 1887).

References

External links

* * ''Oxytropis prenja'' im

Herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

des ''Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle'' in Pari

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