kingdom Plantae - plants »  divisio Magnoliophyta - flowering plants »  class Rosopsida - eudicots » order Malpighiales »  family Violaceae »  tribus Violeae > genus Viola > Viola sect. Plagiostigma Godr.  > Viola subsect. Adnatae W. Becker 

Viola somchetica K. Koch

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Common Name:  Фиалка сомхетская 

Description: Grassy stemless perennial 3.5-16 cm tall. Leaves are up to 4.5 cm long and up to 3 cm wide, ovate or almost triangular, rounded at the base or usually with a rather deep notch, rather large or small along the edge, but clearly jagged, dentate, or rough. Stipules are whitish, leathery, ovate-lanceolate, acute, whole-edge or with rare cilia, up to half or slightly more intergrown with petiole. Flowers up to 2 cm long, purple, fragrant, on pedicels up to 15 cm long, bearing narrow linear-lanceolate bracts approximately in the middle. Sepals 4-7 mm long, with blunt, slightly serrated appendages. Petals elongated, obovate, lateral bearded, lower b. m long spur 3-7 mm long, tubular or somewhat widened at the apex, obtuse and somewhat curved. Capsule 7-12 mm long, ovoid or oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Seeds are bright purple red.  

Distributional Range:  Native Asia-Temperate WESTERN ASIA: Iran [Gīlān] CAUCASUS: Azerbaijan, Russian Federation [Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, arachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar, North Ossetia]

Habitat: grows in meadows, forest edges, glades, on rocks and rocky placers, in forest and subalpine zones . Altitude limits up to 1000-1200 m

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References:

1. Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR) Cambridge University Press.

2. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934-1964. Flora SSSR.

3. Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963-. Flora iranica.

4. Yokota, M. et al. 1988. Viola stoloniflora (Violaceae), a new species from the Ryukyus. Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 101:6.