Campanula hercegovina
| Hercegovinian bellflower | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Campanulaceae |
| Genus: | Campanula |
| Species: | C. hercegovina |
| Binomial name | |
| Campanula hercegovina (A.Degen) 1886 | |
Campanula hercegovina or Herzegovinian bellflower is a endemic plant from Bosnia and Herzegovina. It belongs to family Campanulaceae: bellflowers. Diploid chromosome of these bellflower is 2n=24.[1][2]
Description
Herzegovinian bellflower is fragile hammock perennial plant with length of 12–20 cm, sometimes 40 cm. It has a thick, lumpy semiwoody rizome which can deeply penetrate into the cracks of the limestone cliffs. Its stemsare numerous, square, bend much. The leaves of sterile individuals are gathered in tufts, ovate, pointed at the base heart-shaped, kidney. Both sides have 2–3 teeth and stems are about three times longer than the lamina. Thic bellflower blossoms from June to August. The flowers are in peak clusters, from category oligoflowered (2–5), and has bracts 1–3; linearly as sickle or scaly. The crown is bare, light blue, to thirds split into five triangular lobes. Its length is about of 14 cm (rarely up to about 16–20 cm, and sometimes 22 mm).
Fruit of the bells is screwed sleeve, which is a lot of seeds. It opens on the side, thanks to the 3-5 hole and the top of the fruit remains closed. The seeds are about 1 mm in length and about 0.3 mm wide. Cylinder are light brown, bare surfaces.
Distribution and ecology
This bell is endemic Southeast Dinaric mountains to Albania. In Bosnia and Herzegovina , the largest local populations are in the canyons of Neretva, Rakitnica, Diva Grabovica, Drežnica , at the Prenj, Čvrsnica, Čabulja, Piasa, and Velež.
This plant grows on scarce limnestone rocks of mauntains referred.
Loccus classicus is in Herzegovina: Prenj, Tisovica (A. Degen., Julay 20. 1886.)