Local Names
Azerbaijan: Ətirli bənövşə; Georgia: Viola arvensis L.: – p’at’ardzala, Viola sp.: – ia, – ia-ia (Tushetian); English: Fragrant violet
Botany and Ecology
Perennial, rarely annual, herb. The leaves are alternate or in a basal rosette, with mostly persistent stipules. Flowers solitary in leaf axils (in our species), zygomorphic, peduncle usually with 2 bracts and curved at summit. The sepals are somewhat unequal or subequal, with more or less pronounced reflexed appendages at base. The petals are unequal; the lower one is mostly larger than the others, spurred or gibbous at base, others unguiculate. The stamens are hypogynous, with short, broad, distinct filaments. The anthers are distinct or slightly united, connectives produced at the summit into a triangular coriaceous appendage. Each of the two anthers furnished with a spur-like basal nectary projecting into spur of petal. The ovary 3-carpallate; with 3 placentas bearing numerous ovules. The style is elongated, mostly...
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Mehdiyeva, N.P. et al. (2017). Viola arvensis L. Viola odorata L. Violaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_109
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