Family:

Gentianaceae

Place of publishing:

Ann. Naturh. Mus. (Wien) 2: 128 (1887)

Synonyms:

Ciminalis dinarica (Beck) Holub

Common names:

Trumpet Gentian

Description:

Perennial herbaceous plant with low stems that have 1-2 pairs of leaves, while at the top they end with one large, extremely decorative flower. The leaves are simple, with an entire edge, opposite, bare; rosette leaves are narrowly elliptic to ovate, pointed at the top. The calyx consists of 4-5 fused leaves, pointed at the top and extremely narrowed at the bottom. The corolla is 5-7 cm long, the tube of the corolla is yellowish green in the throat, purple inside, light green in the lower quarter, with darker indigo-blue spots all over the inside. The fruit is a many-seeded, elliptically elongated capsule.

Flowering season:

From June to August.

Habitat:

The optimum is found in the vegetation of mountain ores on a carbonate substrate, at an altitude of 800 m to over 2,000 m.

General distribution:

It is an endemic species of the Dinarides with disjunctions on the Apennine peninsula.

Threat status:

The species is on the Red List of FBiH flora (Đug et al., 2013) under the category VU - vulnerable species. It is also on the Red List of the flora of the RS (Anonimus, 2012).

Attractions:

The locus classicus of this species is actually in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, more precisely Hranisave - Bjelašnica pl. (Beck-Mannagetta, 1887).

Basic literature

Beck-Mannagetta, G. (1887). Flora von Südbosnien und der agrenzenden Herzegovina. II Theil. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien.

Mišić, Lj. (1965). Phytogeographic distribution of the species Gentiana dinarica Beck. Yearbook of the Biological Institute of the University of Sarajevo, 18: 199-209, Sarajevo.

Međedović, S., Šiljak-Yakovlev, S., Mišić, L. (1984). Comparative biosystematic studies of Gentiana acaulis L. and Gentiana dinarica Beck. Yearbook of the Biological Institute of the University of Sarajevo, 37: 79-90.

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.

Šoljan, D. (2011). Mountain ornament, Dinaric gentian (Gentiana dinarica G. Beck). Fondeko, 15(34): 34-35, Sarajevo.

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.

Šoljan, D. (2023). Endemic flora of the mountains in the vicinity of Sarajevo. Dobra knjiga d.o.o., Sarajevo.

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