Research Article

Occurrence of Morphological and Anatomical Adaptive Traits in Young and Adult Plants of the Rare Mediterranean Cliff Species Primula palinuri Petagna

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Adult plants of P. palinuri: (a)-(b) view of plants growing on the cliffs; (c) plants in the winter habitus; (d) plants in the summer habitus with wilting and shedding leaves; (e) branched rhizome of a single plant developing upside down; (f) rhizome with bursting lateral bud (arrow); (g) adventitious roots emerging from the rhizome and acting as tie-rods. Bars are 5 cm in (c)-(d).
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