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Stellaria media (L.) Vill. Caryophyllaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

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Synonyms

Alsine media L.; Stellaria apetala Ucria ex Roem.; Stellaria media (L.) J. C. Sowerby & Sm.; Stellaria media var. procera Klatt & Richt.; Stellaria media var. normalis Speg.; Stellaria xanthanthera Pobed.; Stellaria hiemalis Raunk.; Stellaria vulgaris Raunk

Local Names

Armenia: (Astghik sovorakan); Azerbaijan: Cincilim; Georgia: – zhunzhruki, – junjruko (Kartlian, Kakhetian), – junjruki (Kartlian, Kakhetian), – ts’vrili mkhalai (Mokhevian), – chit’is tolai (Mokhevian), – ts’vrilmkhalai (Mokhevian), – osurmkhalai (Mokhevian), – osuri mkhali (Mthiuletian), – natsara (Meskhetian), – bots’va (Kvemo Imeretian), – bots’ots’ia (Zemo Imeretian), – bots’ots’o (Gurian), – bots’ots’ua (Gurian), – sirisua (Gurian), – k’ink’a (Okribian), – zhrich’a (Acharian) (Makashvili 1991); English: Middle startwort

Botany and Ecology

Annual or biennial, with a slender branched taproot. Stems 10–30 cm long, decumbent, partly ascending, branched, with a line of hairs on one side, glabrous elsewhere....

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

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

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

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2016). Stellaria media (L.) Vill. Caryophyllaceae. In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50009-6_45-1

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