Polygala moggii Raffaelli, Mosti & Tardelli

Perennial herb ; up to 5-13 cm high , from a woody root-stock . Stems numerous , richly branched especially at the distal end , appressed or slightly ascendent and weakly zig-zagging , cylindrical , puberulous with minute crisped hairs and often showing leaf scars . Leaves 3 . 5-6 . 0 x 3-5 mm , elliptic-obovate to sub_x0002_orbicular-obcordate , emarginate at apex or shortly mucronate , sparsely puberulous with minute crisped hairs or glabrescent , slightly succulent , with a central midrib ; petiole 0 . 5 mm long ; larger leaves 8-10 x 6-7 mm , sometimes present along the basal part of the branches . Inflorescences racemes short , terminal , 3-5(-6)-flowered ; bracts ca . 2 . 5 mm long , ovate , suborbicular or obcordate , persistent ; bracteoles 1 mm long , suborbicular , persistent . Flowers blue ; wing sepals 2 , obovate-oblanceolate , falcate , 3 mm long , without veins or obscurely veined ; posterior sepal 1 . 5 mm long ; anterior sepals 2 , free , lanceolate , ca . 0 . 8 mm long . All sepals greenish , with hyaline whitish-yellowish margins , crisped puberulous on the outer face and internally ... glabrous ; petals 3: upper 2 oblanceolate-oblong , ca . 2 mm long , pale-violet , with a darker purple spot in the proximal portion ; keel 2 . 5-3 mm long , violet at tip , whitish at base , crested with a lacerate pale-violet appendage ; stamens 8 , ca . 2 mm . long . Fruit capsule , 3 x 2 mm , obovate-oblong , glabrous , emarginate at apex , with thickened margins , unwinged . Seeds 2 . 5 x 0 . 8 m , ellipsoid-oblong , densely pubescent with white straight hairs 0 . 5-0 . 7 mm long ; caruncle white , ca . 0 . 5 x 0 . 5 mm , with 3 basal appendages 0 . 7-0 . 8 mm long , pubescent with white sparse patent hairs between the lobes . (Ref . Raffaelli ; 2007) .

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Endemic (EN) - Global Assessment

Not Common

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