Synonyms
Gentiana fimbriiplica K. Koch
Local Names
Aerbaijan: Yеddidilim аcıçiçəк; Georgia: 
– naghvela; English: Gentian.
Botany and Ecology
Perennial, glabrous. Rootstock stout, with thick stringy roots. Stems numerous, 15–40 cm long, ascending, rarely suberect, covered below in brown scales, rather densely leafy. Leaves sessile, 2–5 cm long, (6) 8–15 (20) mm wide, sheating, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, attenuate toward the apex but obtusely tipped, 5-nerved. Flowers crowded in compact many-flowered subcapitate terminal inflorescences, rarely solitary, or in twos or threes, enveloped in smaller uppermost leaves; calyx campanulate, (10) 18–19 (26) mm long, half the length of the corolla, calyx teeth as long as or somewhat shorter than tube, linear to linear-lanceolate, apex acute, margin subtruncate and minutely scabrous; corolla tubular-clavate, dark blue, (29) –40– (48) mm long, 15–(21) mm wide below the throat, corolla lobes ovate, obtusely acuminate, one seventh the...
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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2017). Gentiana septemfida Pall. Gentianaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_84
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