Gentianaceae
Dane's dwarf gentian
Comastoma tenellum
- Family
- Gentianaceae
- Genus
- Comastoma
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Common names
By language (7)
- Chinese
- 柔弱喉毛花, 柔弱喉花草, 柔弱喉草花
- English
- Dane's dwarf gentian, Dane's dwarfgentian, Lapland gentian, Samiland-Gentian, Slender gentian
- Finnish
- Hentokatkero
- French
- Gentiane délicate
- German
- Zarter Haarschlund
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Småsøte
- Slovak
- Horec útly
Synonyms
- Amarella monantha (A.Nelson) Rydb.
- Cicendia glacialis Raf.
- Cicendia tenella (Rottb.) Raf.
- Comastoma boreale (Bunge) T.N.Ho ex Omer
- Comastoma dichotomum (Pall.) Holub
- Eyrythalia dichotoma (Pall.) Bercht. & J.Presl
- Eyrythalia glacialis Bercht. & J.Presl
- Eyrythalia nana Borkh.
- Eyrythalia pedunculata D.Don
- Eyrythalia tenella (Rottb.) H.Buek
- Gentiana borealis Bunge
- Gentiana dichotoma Pall.
- Gentiana fimbriata Vitman
- Gentiana glacialis Vill.
- Gentiana islandica Joannei ex Schult.
- Gentiana koenigii Gunnerus
- Gentiana monantha A.Nelson
- Gentiana nivalis Poir.
- Gentiana oederi Sol. ex Bab.
- Gentiana tenella Rottb.
- Gentiana tenella f. alba J.Rousseau & Raymond
- Gentiana tenella var. monantha (A.Nelson) J.Rousseau
- Gentiana tenella var. occidentalis J.Rousseau & Raymond
- Gentiana tenella var. sikkimensis C.B.Clarke
- Gentiana tetragona Roth
- Gentiana tristriata Turcz.
- Gentianella dichotoma (Pall.) Harry Sm. ex S.Nilsson
- Gentianella tenella (Rottb.) Harry Sm.
- Gentianella tenella (Rottb.) Börner
- Gentianella tenella subsp. pribilofii J.M.Gillett
- Gentianella tenella var. sikkimensis (C.B.Clarke) S.Garg
- Heteroclita dichotoma Raf.
- Hippion dichotomum F.W.Schmidt
- Hippion islandicum F.W.Schmidt
- Hippion longipedunculatum F.W.Schmidt
- Hippion nanum F.W.Schmidt
- Hippion tenellum F.W.Schmidt
- Lexipyretum tenellum (Rottb.) Dulac
- Lomatogonium tenellum (Rottb.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
- Monosteria dichotoma Raf.
Flowers
- In flower
- July to August (from 64 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Antoine MARNAT, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Antoine MARNAT, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Antoine MARNAT, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: HermannSchachner, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Elias, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Thomas Mathis, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Gabriel OLLIVIER, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: monkeyjodey, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: HermannSchachner, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: bigmac04, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Malte Krömer, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: HermannSchachner, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.