Petromarula
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''Petromarula'' is a genus of plants in the family
Campanulaceae The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky sap. Among them are several familiar garden plants bel ...
. There is only one known species, ''Petromarula pinnata'',
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to the island of
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in the
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.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> The name "Petromarula" means "rock lettuce" in Greek, a reference to the plant's traditional use in salads.


Description

Petromarula pinnata is a robust, medium to tall perennial, minutely hairy above. Leaves mostly in a large basal rosette, pinnate to pinnately-lobed, the lower long-stalked; leaflets oval to oblong, coarsely toothed. Flowers pale blue, 9–10 mm, borne in large rather narrow panicles; corolla with 5 spreading to recurved linear lobes. Capsule opening by 3 pores in the middle. Flowers April–May.Mediterranean Wild Flowers,
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& Christopher Grey-Wilson, ''
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'', 1993,


Habitat

Rock crevices, cliffs and old walls.


Gallery

File:Katholikon - Klostergebäude - Pflanze 3.jpg File:Petromarula pinnata - Blüten.jpg File:Petromarula pinnata.jpg File:Petromarula pinnata pm.jpg


References


External links


Cretan Flora, ''Petromarula pinnata''Dave's Garden, PlantFiles: Cretan Wall-Lettuce ''Petromarula pinnata''
* ttp://www.first-nature.com/flowers/petromarula_pinnata.php First Nature, ''Petromarula pinnata'' - Rock Lettucebr>Biodiversity Sitia, Βιοποικιλότητα Δήμου Σητείας , ''Petromarula pinnata'' Πετρομάρουλο
Campanuloideae Endemic flora of Crete Edible plants Monotypic Campanulaceae genera {{Campanulaceae-stub