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Consolida orientalis (J. Gay) Schrödinger Ranunculaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

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Synonyms

Consolida hispanica (Willk. ex Costa) Greuter & Burdet; Delphinium bithynicum Griseb.; Delphinium hispanicum Willk. ex Costa; Delphinium ornatum C. D. Bouché

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Azerbaijan: Şərq üsgüyоtu; English: Larkspur.

Botany and Ecology

Herbs, annual, from slender taproots. Leaves all cauline at anthesis, alternate, proximal leaves petiolate, distal leaves nearly sessile. Leaf blade palmately finely dissected, ±semicircular, lobes less than 2 mm wide (except sometimes on leaves near base of stem), margins entire. Inflorescences terminal, 3–45 (75) flowered racemes, 5–30 cm; bracts leaflike, not forming involucre. Flowers bisexual, bilaterally symmetric; sepals not persistent in fruit, 5; upper sepal 1, spurred, 5–18 mm; lateral sepals 2, elliptic or lanceolate, sometimes spurred, 5–18 mm; lower sepals 2, similar to lateral sepals; petals 2, connate, blue to purple, pink, or white, spurred, spur enclosed in upper sepal, 1–2-lobed, 3–8 mm; nectary on spur; stamens many; filaments...

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  • Flora of Azerbaijan, vols. I–VIII. Baku: AS of Azerbaijani SSR; 1950–1961 (in Russian).

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Mehdiyeva, N., Alizade, V., Paniagua Zambrana, N.Y., Bussmann, R.W. (2016). Consolida orientalis (J. Gay) Schrödinger Ranunculaceae. In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50009-6_94-1

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