Viola reichenbachiana
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Growing form
Perennial herb.
Size
10–15 cm high.
Stem
The stem is foliate and there are rosette leaves at the base of the stem.
Leaf
The lamina is 2–4 cm wide, broadly cordate and crenate. The leaves are stipulate. The stipules are at most 1 cm long, narrow-ovate, and there are long and fimbriate teeth on the margin.
Root
The rhizome is vertical and short.
Flower
The flowers are axillary, pendant and bisexual. The flowers are slightly zygomorphic. The calyx and corolla are five-leaved. The corolla is 1.2–1.8 cm wide. The narrow, purple petals do not overlap. The lowest petal bears a saccate spur that protects the spur-like appendage of the two lowest stamens. The spur is narrow, straight and dark purple.
Fruit and seed
The fruit is a tri-locular capsule.
The map represents observations of this taxon, but it may not be used as a distribution map.
- Total squares
- pyökkiorvokki (Finnish)
- lundviol (Swedish)
- AOV - spontaneous, old, resident
Connectivity of forest conservation areas – SUMI Project 2020 ? Vascular plants – SUMI Project 2022 ?
- 2019 EN – Endangered
- 2010 EN – Endangered
- 2000 EN – Endangered
- Arto Kurtto
- Vascular plants