Natural Science Specimen
Natural Science Specimen
Classifier
Scientific Name
Anchusa sardoa (Illario) Selvi & Bigazzi
Classification
Family
Genus
Species
Specimen Category
Storage Method
Field Collection Place
Locality Description
Italy, Sardinia (Sardegna), Porto Conte Parco Nazionale, Conte Harbour. Spiaggia Mugoni (northern end)
Field Collection Date
17 Apr 2013
Field Collection Notes
Upper portion of a 1 m tall flowering and fruiting plant. Anchusa sardoa is a critically endangered Sardgena endemic of sand dune systems (known only from Spiaggia Mugoni). Plants sprawling to erect; flowering stems purple-black; densely invested in coarse hispid hairs; leaves adaxially dark green, abaxially purple to purple-black, coarsely hispid, leaf margins undulose-crisped; flowers initially pale blue fading to white (often distally very faintly tinged blue-white). Specimen collected from a flowering plant growing within a dune slack amongst Papaver rhoeas, Lotus cystioides, Bromus diandrus and other herbs. In 2013 < 700 plants seen, all threatened by beach resort development.
Field Collector
Field Collection latitude/longitude
40.61783, 08.20233
08.20233, 08.20233
Last Update
09 Aug 2017
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