Minuartia anatolica
Minuartia anatolica
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Loosely tufted, hairy or partly glabrous to ± glaucous perennial, usually with creeping caudiculi and erect flowering shoots, 8-25 cm, rarely shorter and densely tufted. Leaves 3-veined at least to the middle; leaf fascicles often scarcely developed at flowering time, or if present always tightly 'closed' and the leaves pointing forwards. Inflorescence a series of lax or ± contracted, usually 8-30-flowered cymes; pedicels pubescent, at least at the base of the calyx, mostly as long as or longer than bract; bracts broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, membranous-margined throughout. Sepals 2,5-5,5 mm, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, usually acute, occasionally acuminate, very rarely red-tinted and then only after flowering. Petals shorter than or as long as sepals, very rarely a little longer.
1. Lower part of plant clothed with long white crisped or silky hairs, the leaf fascicles often appearing arachnoid
2. Flowers aggregated into terminal clusters; entire plant lanuginose, greyish white; sepals 4-5,5 mm; plants rather low-growing, 4-10 cm .........var. lanuginosa
2. Flowers in lax cymes; hairs on lower part of the plant either sparse or crisped and not silky; upper part glandular-puberulent to glabrous; plants 10-20 cm
3. Sepals 2,5-4 mm, lanceolate, broadly acute to acuminate ...........var. arachnoidea
3. Sepals 4-5,5 mm, linear-Ianceolate, narrowly acute to long-acuminate var.anatolica
1. Lower part of the plant glabrous, glaucous, puberulent or velutinous, without white crisped or silky hairs; fascicular leaves ciliate but not arachnoid
4. Plants very densely caespitose, 3-4 cm; sepals 2-3 mm, bluntly acute, incurved at apex and margins .......var. scleranthoides
4. Plants loosely tufted, 8-25 cm; sepals 3-5,5 mm, narrowly acute to acuminate,not incurved
5. Lower part of plant bearing at least some tightly imbricate, ± terete, tetrastichous leaves less than 2 mm; basal leaves all short, less than 5 mm; flowers arranged in terminal and subterminal clusters; petals oblong, long cuneate at base; plant rather densely velutinous .....var. tetrasticha
5. All non-fascicular leaves setaceous or subulate, more than 5 mm; inflorescence usually lax, rarely a little congested and then petals ovate, abruptly contracted at base
6. Entire plant densely glandular-pubescent ...................................var. phrygia
6. Indumentum various, usually sparsely puberulent, only glandular in the inflorescence
7. Sepals 4-5,5 mm, usually glabrous.....................................var anatolica
7. Sepals 3-4 mm, often finely puberulent ................................var polymorpha
