Nonea pallens Petrovič

Taxonomy: Fam. Boraginaceae// Genus: Nonea// Species: Nonea pallens Petrovič.

Determined according to the botanical key provided in The Flora of the Republic of Macedonia (Matevski, 2010).

Lifeform: Annual; Therophyte according to the Raunkiær system.

Distribution: The native range of this species is Balkan Peninsula to Ukraine according to The Euro+Med PlantBase (source: Valdés & Raab-Straube, 2011+) and the Plants of the World Online portal (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).

Habitat: Grasslands and disturbed ground.

Flowering period: Spring – early summer: APR, MAY, JUN.

Nonea pallens – habit. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Nonea pallens – inflorescence. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Nonea pallens – flowers. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Nonea pallens – flowers. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Nonea pallens – fruiting calyx. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Nonea pallens – fruiting calyx. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Nonea pallens – fruiting calyx with nutlets. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Nonea pallens – developing inflorescence and upper cauline leaves. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Nonea pallens – stem with cauline leaves. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Nonea pallens – cauline leaf. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Nonea pallens – lower cauline leaves and basal leaves. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Nonea pallens – basal leaves. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Nonea pallens – adaxial side of leaf. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Nonea pallens – abaxial side of leaf. Osogovo, hilly region near village of Beli, 18.06.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.

References:

Matevski, V. (2010). The Flora of the Republic of Macedonia Vol. II, Book 1. Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Nonea pallens Petrovič. Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:119394-1 [Accessed 17.09.2022].

Nonea pallens. Source: Valdés, B. & Raab-Straube, E. von (2011+): Boraginaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published on the Internet https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/f7cd8894-7074-47bb-bf47-5032b20256cf [Accessed 17.09.2022].

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