Cretan Rock-lettuce, Petromarula pinnata

Photo category:
Herbarium specimen collection

Photo taken Locality: Greece, Crete, Rethymno, Kissou Kampos
Photo taken by:
Avramakis, M.
Photo taken date:
March 2013

Cretan Rock-lettuce

Plants

Photo of a NHMC herbarium specimen of NHMC Herbarium specimen 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.