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Centaurium portense - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Moledo do Minho, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 5/2011 © Jörn Germer

Centaurium portense - Flower, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flower, side view; Moledo do Minho, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 5/2011 © Jörn Germer

Centaurium portense - Twig with flowers - Click to enlarge!

Twig with flowers; Moledo do Minho, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 5/2011 © Jörn Germer

Centaurium portense - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Moledo do Minho, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 5/2011 © Jörn Germer

Centaurium portense - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Moledo do Minho, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 5/2011 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1688
Date of entry: 22.05.2011
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Lesser Centaury

German: Kleines Tausendgüldenkraut

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Gentianales (113)

        Family: Gentianaceae (7)(family description)

          Genus: Centaurium (2)

            Epithet: portense (Brot.) Buchner (1)

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habit: herb

Flower colour: violet, pink

Botanical description

Previously filed as Centaurium pulchellum (Sw.) Druce. Compare with flora.on.

External links

Check for Centaurium portense at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [46] Prieto, J.A.F., Cires, E., Pérez, R., Bueno, Á. (2012): A new endemism for the Azores: the case of Centaurium scilloides (L. f.) Samp.. Plant Syst Evol, 298(0):1867–1879.

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