Cretan Rock-lettuce, Petromarula pinnata

Photo taken Locality: Greece, Crete, Chania, Akrotiri peninsula
Photo taken by:
Hilger, Η. Η.
Photo taken date:
November 2002

Cretan Rock-lettuce

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Photo of Cretan Rock-lettuce, Petromarula pinnata. It is one of the four endemic genera of Greece. It is a monotypic genus endemic of Crete. As an obligatory chasmophyte, it grows almost exclusively, on cliff's crevices.

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