Campernelle Jonquil - Narcissus x odorus
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Species Description
Narcissus jonquilla x N. pseudonarcissus = N. x odorus.
Widespread but rare.
Stace 4:
Narcissus x odorus L. (N. jonquilla x N. pseudonarcissus) - Campernelle Jonquil.
Leaves subterete with strong keel, 6-8mm wide; flowers (1)2-4; hypanthial tube 14-25mm; tepals 15-25mm, yellow; corona 13-18mm, yellow; (2n=14, 21, 28). Neophyte-naturalised; rarely naturalised in Scilly, Cornwall and Channel Islands, rare elsewhere in England North to Mid West Yorkshire; wild Iberian and garden origin. Cultivars form Division 7. Possibly some or most plants are derived from N. hispanicus and N. bicolor rather than from N. pseudonarcissus.
Key:
- Tepals patent to erecto-patent or very slightly reflexed
- All 6 stamens borne at same level close to base of corolla
- Corona usually >10mm, if <10mm then longer than tepals, about as long as to much longer than wide; stamens all of same length or more or less so; hypanthial tube usually distinctly widening towards apex, sometimes more or less parallel-sided
- Tepals ovate-lanceolate or triangular-ovate to suborbicular, ≥5mm wide
- Corona distinctly shorter than tepals; hypanthial tube >2x as long as greatest width
- Flowers (1)2-6; leaves dark to bright green, 8mm wide; stems terete to subterete
- Corona >12mm; tepals 15-25mm; hypanthial tube widening distally