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Echium sabulicola (Sand Viper's Bugloss) |
Echium sabulicola (BORAGINACEAE.)
Images for this profile are taken from the Maltese Islands at or after year 2000. |
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| Nomenclature and Basic Information |
Species name : |
Echium sabulicola Pomel
Published in Nouv. Mat. Fl. Atl. 90 (1874) | Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.) |
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Plant Family : | Boraginaceae
Juss. (The Borage Family)
16 species from the Boraginaceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands. | English name(s) : | Sand Viper's Bugloss | Maltese name(s) : | Lsien il-fart tax-xatt | Status for Malta : | Indigenous. Present on the Maltese islands before man | Frequency : | Very Common Common Frequent
Scarce
Rare Very rare Extinct
| Growth form : |
Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: HEMICRYPTOPHYTE (prostate plants with flowers close to the ground)
Germination [info]: Dicotyledon | Legal Protection [link]: | Not Protected by Law (LN200/2011 or LN311/2006) | Red List (1989) : | Not listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands | Flowering Time : | Apr-May | Colour of Flowers: | Blue or Violet |
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| Species Description and Distribution |
Habitat in Europe: |
Roadsides, fields and sandy areas near the sea. |
Preferred habitat in Malta: |
Data will be available in the next update of this website. |
Botanical Description: |
Procumbent, ascending or erect, hispid biennial or perennial 15-50 cm, with several to many flowering stems. Basal leaves ovate to obovate-cauline leaves oblanceolate to spathulate, attenuate and subpetiolate at base, with more or less dense, white, appressed or patent setae. Inflorescence more or less branched, laxly paniculate. Calyx 6-10 mm at anthesis, up to 16 mm in fruit, densely white-setose. Corolla 12-22 mm, infundibuliform, dark blue or pinkish- to bluish-purple, usually with 1-2 stamens exserted; filaments sometimes sparsely hairy. |
Distributional range: |
W. Mediterranean region. |
Distributional map in Europe
and the Mediterranean region (2018):
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Occurrences in Europe.
(from Flora Europaea pre year 1993): |
the Balaeric Islands, Corse, France (incl. Monaco and Channel Islands but excluding Corse), Spain (incl. Andorra but excl. the Balaerics), Italy (excl. Sicily and Sardignia), Sardinia, Sicily and/or Malta |
Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(Euro+Med Checklist, 2017) -
Country codes |
? Ag Bl(I M N) Co Ga Gr Hs(S) It Li Ma Sa Si(S) Tn |
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