LEGOUSIADurande - VENUS' LOOKING GLASS
Scientific Description:
Small annual herbs. Stems simple or branched from base. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, lower shortly petiolate, entire or ± undulate, crenate. Flowers in racemes or panicles. Calyx and corolla 5-fid. Corolla rotate or broadly campanulate. Stamens 5, filaments short, anthers free. Style pubescent; stigmas 3, short. Ovary cylindrical, much longer than wide, usually 3-locular. Fruit a capsule, dehiscing by 3 valves near apex. Seeds small, globose to elliptic, brown, shiny.
Reference:
Damboldt J (1978). Legousia Durande, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 6: 83.
Public Description:
Legulousia is a genus of annual herbs known as “Venus' looking glass”, and is native to Mediterranean Basin, the Caucasus, Southern Russia, Türkiye and the Middle East. There are 7 species in the world and 4 species (4 taxa) in Türkiye.
References:
Anonymous (2015). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legousia, Accessed date: 29.12.2015.
İkinci N (2012). Legousia Durande, In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 311–312.
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