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Crepis vesicaria subsp. hyemalis (Beaked Hawksbeard) |
Crepis vesicaria subsp. hyemalis (ASTERACEAE.) Images for this profile are taken from the Maltese Islands after year 2000. |
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Nomenclature and Basic Information |
Species name : |
Crepis vesicaria subsp. hyemalis(Bivona) Babcock
Published in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 19: 404 (1941) |
Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.) |
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Plant Family : |
Asteraceae
Bercht. & J.Presl (=Compositae) (The Daisy or Sunflower Family) 124 species from the Asteraceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands. | English name(s) : | Beaked Hawksbeard |
Maltese name(s) : |
Krepis Sqalli |
Status for Malta : |
Subendemic. Found in Malta and neighbouring territories such as in Sicily,
Lampedusa, Pantelleria, and other islands. |
Frequency : |
Very Common Common Frequent Scarce Rare Very rare Extinct |
Growth form : |
Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: Soon to be updated...
Germination [info]: Dicotyledon |
Legal Protection : |
Protected by law: Schedule III of [S.L. 549.44] (Conservation requires the designation of SAC) |
Red List (1989) : |
Not listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands |
Flowering Time : |
May – October |
Colour of Flowers: |
Yellow |
Name Derivation : |
Crepis:
vesicaria subsp. hyemalis:
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Description, Habitat and Distribution |
Habitat in Europe: |
Data will be available in the next update of this website. |
Preferred habitat in Malta: |
Data will be available in the next update of this website. |
Botanical Description: |
Perennial, biennial or annual; stems 3-150 cm, usually much-branched; ultimate branches deflexed before anthesis. Leaves pubescent or glabrous; basal 10-35 x 2-8 cm, oblanceolate or sometimes almost spathulate or ovate, obtuse to acute, sinuately or retrorsely denticulate, dentate or runcinate-pinnatifid, pinnatisect or 2-pinnatisect, often lyrate, sometimes pectinate, narrowed at base; lower cauline like the basal or sessile; upper cauline lanceolate to bract-like, auriculate-amplexicaul. Capitula many, often in a lax corymb. Involucre 10-13 x 5-9 mm, tomentose, with a median row of black eglandular hairs; bracts linear-lanceolate, not imbricate, outer c. 1/3 as long as inner. Achenes 5-7 mm, uniform, pale brown, attenuate into a slender or rather stout beak nearly equalling the body, 10-ribbed. |
Chromosome number: |
2n=8 |
Distributional range: |
Sicilia and small islands of C. Mediterranean region. |
Distributional map in Europe and the Mediterranean region (2018): |
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Occurrences in Europe. (from Flora Europaea pre year 1993): |
Sicily and/or Malta |
Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region. (from Euro+Med Checklist, 2019)
Country codes
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? It Sa Si(S) |
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