Family:

Campanulaceae

Place of publishing:

Österr. Bot. Z. 44: 303 (1894)

Synonyms:

Campanula tarana K. Malý

Common names:

Hercegovinian bellflower

Description:

A brittle perennial with a thick, semi-woody gnarled rhizome that penetrates deep into the narrow crevices of limestone cliffs. Stems numerous, hanging (8-) 12-20 (-40) cm high, angular, folded. The leaves of sterile individuals are in tufts, ovate, pointed, heart-shaped, reniform at the base, with 2-3 teeth on both sides; petioles are about three times longer than the lamina. Flowers in apical racemes that are few-flowered: bracts 1-3, linear sickle or scaly. Corolla glabrous, light blue, cleaved up to a third into five triangular lobes, (14-) 16-20 (-22) mm long. The fruit is a twisted cocoon with many seeds, it opens on the side with 3-5 holes, and the very top of the fruit remains closed. The seeds are small, about 1 mm long and 0.3 mm wide.

Flowering season:

From June to August.

Habitat:

It grows in crevices of limestone rocks, mainly from the montane to subalpine zone.

General distribution:

It is an endemic species of the Dinarides.

Threat status:

The species is on the Red List of Flora of FBiH (Đug et al., 2013) under the category LC - species of least concern. It is also on the Red List of the flora of the RS (Anonymus, 2012).

Attractions:

Locus classicus is on Tisovica (Prenj pl.), (leg. 20.07. 1886, A. Degen).

Basic literature

Von Degen, A. (1894). Bemerkungen über einige orientalische Pflanzenarten. XVI Zwei neue Pflanzen des westlichen Theiles.

der Balkanhalbinsel. Österreichische Botanische Zeitschrift 44(8): 302-304

Šilić, Č. (1984). Endemic plants. Institute for textbooks and teaching aids, Svjetlost, Belgrade, Sarajevo.

Šilić, Č. (2002). Endemic and rare plants of the Blidinje Nature Park. Matica Croatia, Čitluk Branch.

Castroviejo, S., Aldasoro, J.J. & Alarcón, M.; with contributions from Hand, R. (2010+). Campanulaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Avaible to: https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/ taxon/a899bc1a-f9af-445e-ad85-492bd96bd70f

Anonymous (2012). Red list of protected species of flora and fauna of the Republic of Srpska. Retrieved from: http://nasljedje.org/prirodno-nasljedje/202; available on 02.07.2023.

Đug, S., Muratović, E., Drešković, E., Boškailo, A., Dudević, S. (2013). Red list of the flora of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Draft report - Proposal. Project of Forest and Mountain Protected Areas, "NGO Green way" and "Federal Ministry of Environment and Tourism", Sarajevo. pp. 1- 347.

Mihelj, D., Šoljan, D. (2015). Historical review of research on the genus Edraianthus A. DC. (Campanulaceae) in the flora of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Natural Sciences, Journal of the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of Matica Hrvatska, 15(1-2): 205-224, Sarajevo.

Boškailo, A., Boškailo, S. (2023). Flora of the City of Mostar. Monograph. (Manuscript).