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==Description== |
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''Asperula crassula'' was first described in 185, it is endemic to a few hundred hectares in northeast [[Crete]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipni.org/n/905691-1|title=International Plant Names Index|website=www.ipni.org|access-date=2020-03-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:905691-1|title=Asperula crassula Greuter & Zaffran {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science|website=Plants of the World Online|access-date=2020-03-02}}</ref> ''Asperula crassula'' is perennial, short, and cushion shaped. Its stems are worm-shaped and are often 2-4 millimeters long. Its flowers are short, dense, and sub-cylindrical. It is 1.5 millimeters long and bipartite from the middle. It exists on rocky slopes and flats of limestone and sandstone.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cretanflora.com/asperula_crassula.html|title=Asperula crassula|website=www.cretanflora.com|access-date=2020-03-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nhmc.uoc.gr/en/museum/photo-archive/selection/images/nhmc.image.78874|title=Suculent Woodruff, Asperula crassula, flowers|last=nikolakakis|date=2013-03-21|website=Natural History Museum of Crete|language=en|access-date=2020-03-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Centre|first=World Conservation Monitoring|url=https://books.google.com/?id=XIL9adYYeSIC&pg=PA500&lpg=PA500&dq=Asperula+crassula#v=onepage&q=Asperula%20crassula&f=false|title=1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants|date=1998|publisher=IUCN|isbn=978-2-8317-0328-2|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Europe|first=Council of|url=https://books.google.com/?id=EsWT8Ukcq48C&pg=PA186&lpg=PA186&dq=Asperula+crassula#v=onepage&q=Asperula%20crassula&f=false|title=Biodiversity and Climate Change: Reports and Guidance Developed Under the Bern Convention|date=2012-01-01|publisher=Council of Europe|isbn=978-92-871-7059-0|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Gibbons|first=Bob|url=https://books.google.com/?id=cG5FxRp7li8C&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=Asperula+crassula#v=onepage&q=Asperula%20crassula&f=false|title=Greece|date=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-850437-5|language=en}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Rubiaceae |
Genus: | Asperula |
Species: | A. crassula
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Binomial name | |
Asperula crassula Greuter & Zaffran
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Asperula crassula is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae.
Description
Asperula crassula was first described in 185, it is endemic to a few hundred hectares in northeast Crete.[1][2] Asperula crassula is perennial, short, and cushion shaped. Its stems are worm-shaped and are often 2-4 millimeters long. Its flowers are short, dense, and sub-cylindrical. It is 1.5 millimeters long and bipartite from the middle. It exists on rocky slopes and flats of limestone and sandstone.[3][4][5][6][7]
References
- ^ "International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
- ^ "Asperula crassula Greuter & Zaffran | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
- ^ "Asperula crassula". www.cretanflora.com. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
- ^ nikolakakis (2013-03-21). "Suculent Woodruff, Asperula crassula, flowers". Natural History Museum of Crete. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
- ^ Centre, World Conservation Monitoring (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. IUCN. ISBN 978-2-8317-0328-2.
- ^ Europe, Council of (2012-01-01). Biodiversity and Climate Change: Reports and Guidance Developed Under the Bern Convention. Council of Europe. ISBN 978-92-871-7059-0.
- ^ Gibbons, Bob (2003). Greece. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850437-5.