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Lesser Centaury
Centaurium pulchellum
Centaurium pulchellum is a species of flowering plant in the gentian family known by the common name lesser centaury. It differs from Centaurium erythraea by lacking basal rosette of leaves and by having a developed peduncle below the flowers. It is often much smaller, less than ten centimetres.
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Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.368
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.212
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.471
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.456
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.355
The Dutch Herbarium or Herbal
Petrus Nylandt · 1670 · p.134
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 76217.