Centaurium portense

Centaurium portense (Brot.) Buchner has flowers without nectaries. Calyx without intracalicina membrane. Corolla contorta prefloration without folds or interlobulares appendices. Ovary and fruit sessile. wingless seeds, reticulated or honeycombed-reticulate.

Centaurium (Centaury) is a genus of 20 species in the gentian family (Gentianaceae), tribe Chironieae, subtribe Chironiinae. The genus was named after the centaur Chiron, famed in Greek mythology for his skill in medicinal herbs... more