Vincetoxicum funebre Boiss. & Kotschy

PLANTS OF THE CAUCASUS (GEORGIA)
APOCYNACEAE
Vincetoxicum funebre Boiss. & Kotschy
det. N. Lachashvili
The Republic of Georgia. Tbilisi. Environs of lake Kus-tba,
ca. 300m S of the lake, ca. 41°41'51 N, 44°45’7 E, ca. 825 m.
(coordinates from hand-held GPS). Rocks. Plant cover ca.
25%. Galium verum, Alyssum tortuosum, Fumana
procumbens, Petrorhagia saxifraga.
Perennial. Stem erect, up to 70cm, glabrous below,
subdistichous pilose above. Leaves subsessile, broadly ovate
or suborbicular, subcordate at base. Calyx lobes triangular,
acute. Corolla dark purple, lobes oblong, glabrous. Follicles
acuminate, glabrous.
Nikoloz Lachashvili 238	14 July 2005
The New York Botanical Garden (NY)
in Collaboration with
N. Ketskhoveli Institute of Botany, Georgian Academy of Sciences
04171625