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Viola Cephalonica (plant)

Genus: Viola

Family: Violaceae

Origin: Greece (Ionian Islands present)

This Plant is known as Viola cephalonica Bronm, they are native to their origin. The life-form of this plant is Hemicryptophyte. These plants are critically endangered.

 Description 

This flower is small in size and has a rich violet color. This flower typically has five(5) petals, making it a pentamerous flower. The plant is arranged Zymorphically; this means it is bilaterally symmetrical. The petals are all open and visible with a single row of relatively flat petals, known as a single arrangement. The simplest petal layout. Each flower on the plant is a single flower on a single stalk, the stem is upright with the flower nodding downward.

 Habitat 

Temperate/submediterranean Grasslands, boulders, cliffs, rocks, walls, ravines.

 Leaves 

The leaves are attached to the stems at the nodes. The arrangement of veins on the leaves (venation) are pinnate and ovate.

 Flower 

The flower contains a slaveform shape, "tube with disc of petals at the top".

 References 

https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2019/02/flower-shapes-terminology/

http://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flora-greece/cdm_dataportal/taxon/a5d19ac8-9679-4682-93a1-03fc9a0935cc

https://www.britannica.com/plant/angiosperm/Stems#ref596604