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Gentiana clusii

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Authors: Perr.  

Botanical Description

One of the G. acaulis group and similar, but leaves leathery and glossy, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate with a hard tip. Calyx lobes long-pointed, straight, more or less parallel with the corolla tube. Mountains of central and southeast Europe, usually on limestone.