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Published In: Florae Graecae Prodromus 2(2): 222. 1813[1816]. (Fl. Graec. Prod.) Name publication detailView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Nomenclature:

2. Aristolochia parvifolia Sm. in Sibth. & Sm., Fl. Graec. Prodr. 2: 222 (1816); Boiss., Fl. Orient. 4: 1076 (1879). Aristolochia tournefortii Jaub. & Spach, Ill. Pl. Or. 2: 39, t. 128 (1845); Boiss., l. c. Type: [Greece, Attiki] circa Athenas vulgaris; nec infriquens pertotam Graecium, Sibthorp (OXF). [Plate 49]

Common name:

Small-leaved Birthwort; ספלול קטן

Habitat:

Bathas and rock crevices. Carmel Coast, Sharon Plain, Philistean Plain, Upper and Lower Galilee, Mt. Carmel, Esdraelon Plain, Beit Shean Valley, Samaria, Shefela, Judean Mts., Judean Desert, W. Negev, Upper and Lower Jordan Valleys, Golan, Gilead, Ammon.

Area distribution:

E. Mediterranean (Palestine-Turkey, Cyprus).


 

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     Low, perennial herb. Rhizome subterranean, fusiform. Stems slender, procumbent or ascending. Leaves 1-2(-3.5) x 0.7-1.5(-2.5) cm., ovate-oblong or suborbicular, cordate-auriculate at base with rounded auricles, obtuse at apex, more or less puberulent beneath; petiole about as long as sinus or longer. Flowers solitary in upper axils, 3-5 (-6) cm., very short-pedicelled. Perianth dark-purple, glabrous outside; tube hardly incurved, with ovoid utricle; limb linear-lanceolate, puberulent on inner surface, much longer than tube. Ovary hirtellous. Capsule 0.8-1.4 cm., nearly globular. Fl. December-May (-July).

 
 
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