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English
name:
Herb of falling in love (by extension).
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Description: Plant of branched out stock, of adult with pulvinular aspect. Linear,
ciliate, dimorphic leaves, the external ones are flat, the internal
narrower, grooved. Generally minor stem of 10 cm. Involucral pod
generally minor of 1 cm. Involucral external bracts shorter than the
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Distribution: Endemism in the massif Xurés-Gerês (Spain - Portugal), with a
nearby disjunction in the Serra Amarela (Portugal). In Spanish
territory it is in high zones of the slope ourensana of the Serra do
Xurés, in the destricts of Lobios and Muiños (Ourense).
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Habitat: Cracks of big rocky places of summit (granodiorite) and sandy not
deep soils in the surrounding areas. It begins to form a part of the
communities of cesspitous camephytus and graminoid hemicriptophytus
of the association Minuartio recurvae-Silenetum acutifoliae.
As accompanists species:Festuca summilusitana, Armory beirana,
Hieracium amplexicaule, Minuartia re-curls Minuartia recurva, Silene
acutifolia, Phalacrocarpum oppossitifolium, Sedum brevifolium,
etc.
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Report about the
reasons of the risk: Risk by the recent releesing
of alochthonous goats (Capra hispanica subsp. hispanica), instead of
native subspecies (C. hispanica subsp. lusitanica)
already extinct. Endogamy. Forest fires.
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Category IUCN:
EN
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Possible solutions:
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Culinary, medicinal and/or medicinal properties:
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Appearance
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