Een fraaie plant Michiel. De meesten die het in eerste niet met je eens zijn, zullen, als ze de lengte van het artikel gewaar worden, hard gillend wegrennen. Ook een manier om tegenstand te minimaliseren. Interessant stof, die ik zeker uitgebreider ga lezen als ik de plant een keer tegenkom.

Groeten, Robert

Het ging mij vooral om de opmerkingen bij de korte bespreking van het taxon C. gymandra:

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Note. – Cerinthe gymnandra, described from Naples, is a variant with prominent anthers (Guadagno, 1917; Fiori, 1926: 265–267; Pignatti, 1982) which is common especially in the W Mediterranean (Iberian peninsula and NW Africa). However, anther position has a weak taxonomic value due to broad variation even within populations and lack of correlation with other diagnostic characters. In ad-dition, dried plants of C. major which had anthers included when fresh often show exserted stamens due to the shortening of corolla during exsiccation. According to Valdés (1981), C. gymnandra has yellow corollas without purple belt in the middle part and smaller nutlets. However, com-pletely yellow flowers are found in several populations of typical C. major in Italy and Greece, while mixed populations with either entirely yellow or yellow/red corollas are found in the type area around Naples (Guadagno, 1917). Finally, the mericarpids of “C. gymnandra” from southern Italy are as large as in typical C. major, while they are considerably smaller in C. major subsp. oranensis from the coasts of North Africa.