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Sempervivum caucasicum Rupr. Sempervivum annae Gurgenidze Crassulaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

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Synonyms

Sempervivum caucasicum Rupr. : Sempervivum charadzeae Gurgenidze; Sempervivum ermanicum Gurgenidze

Sempervivum annae Gurgenidze : Sempervivum pumilum M. Bieb.; Sempervivum armenum Boiss. & A. Huet; Sempervivum sosnowskyi Ter-Chatsch.; Sempervivum transcaucasicum Muirhead

Local Names

Azerbaijan : Sempervivum annae – Кiçiк qаyаоtu; Georgia: Sempervivum spp.: – k’ldisvashla, – k’ldiskhortsa (Mokhevian), – pkhija (Tushetian), – khija (Tushetian), – khaje (Tushetian), – k’ldis jojo (Meskhetian), – Joris’kuda, – uk’vdava (Acharian), – Klidsduma (Tushetian), – tsenashe (Megrelian) (Makashvili 1991); English: Cacuasus Houseleek.

Botany and Ecology

Fleshy, glabrous or glandular-pubescent perennials. Leaves alternate, entire, fleshy, usually ovate or oblong, apex acute or acuminate, margins ciliate, on sterile shoots leaves crowded into spherical basal rosettes, on flowering shoots remote and more elongated along the stem; flowering shoots arising from center of leaf rosettes....

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  1. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

  2. Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Naiba Mehdiyeva & Valida Alizade

  3. Institute of Botany of National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

    George Fayvush & Alla Aleksanyan

  4. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

  5. Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

  6. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2020). Sempervivum caucasicum Rupr. Sempervivum annae Gurgenidze Crassulaceae. In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50009-6_97-2

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