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Linum uninerve (Rochel) Jav.
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An endemic species from the calcareous low altitude mountains of Banat, south-western Romania. An isolated location reported from Persani Mountains (Brasov county). Despite the fact that it is usually illustrated with only a few flowers on a single stem (like the ecologically similar Linum dolomiticum Borbas from the mountains in Central Hungary and Linum capitatum Kitaibel from Croatia and Bosna-Hercegovina) the plant is in reality densely branched very much like Linum flavum L. and the leaves are not 'uninerved' as the name of the the species suggests. It is clearly closely related with the common species Linum flavum L. from which it differs mostly in the numerous ligneous repent or ascendent sterile shoots (absent or a few long herbaceous erect sterile shoots in Linum flavum L.) and the orange-yellow color of the flowers (in Linum flavum L. bright lemon yellow).Domogled calcareous massif, Mehedinti Mountains,10 th of July 2011. dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.net
Domogled calcareous massif, Mehedinti Mountains, July 2010. Bogdan Iuliu Hurdu, PhD student, hurdesbi@yahoo.com
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