Cyclamen coum, Miller

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 25-26

7. C. coum Miller , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 6 (1768)

(inch C. durostoricum Panpi & Solac. ).

Tuber 2-3-5 cm in diameter, subglobose or depressed-globose, pubescent, rooting from base. Leaves (T2-)3-7 x (1-3—)3—7 cm, with or without marbling,

reniform or suborbicular, rarely broadly ovate, rounded or obtuse, rarely subacute; margins entire or obscurely undulate-denticulate. Corolla without auricles, magenta with a prominent, dark violet, pale-centred blotch at the base of each corolla-lobe; lobes 7-15 mm. Style very shortly exserted. Fruiting pedicel coiling from the apex. Flowering from January to April. S.E. Europe. Bu Rs (K) Tu.