Boraginaceae

Alkanna kotschyana

Alkanna kotschyana DC. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 4 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Habitat: kayalık kireçtaşı yamaçlar, Pinus ormanı, Quercus çalılığı Minimum yükseklik: 0 Maksimum yükseklik: 1450 Endemik: endemik Element: D. Akdeniz Türkiye dağılımı: G. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Türkiye

A. kotschyana DC, Prodr. 10:98 (1846). Syn: A. amplexicaulis DC, op. cit. 101 (1846)! A. brachysolen Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:230 (1875), pro syn. Ic: Ark. Bot. 1(5): t. 16 (1949). Figure 16, p. 417. Map 30, p. 427.   Plant 15-40 cm, asperulous-canescent, indumentum passing gradually from short mostly glandular to ± numerous hispid-setiform, l-2(-3) mm, eglandular hairs. Basal leaves oblong-cuneate, 4-8 x 0.7-1 .3 cm; cauline linear-lanceolate to oblong, 1.5-4 x 0.3-1 cm. Cymes 10-20 cm in fruit. Bracts linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1-3x0.3-1 cm. Calyx 5-8 mm in flower, 9-13 mm in fruit. Corolla yellow, glabrous outside, 10-15 mm, limb 4-6 mm diam. Nutlets 3-4 mm diam.,-scrobiculate-reticulate; beak strongly deflexed. Fl. 4-7. Rocky limestone slopes, Pinus forest, Quercus scrub, s. 1.-1450 m.   Type: [Turkey C5 Içel] in monte Tauro [Gülek Mağara, 1675 m,] aestate 1836, Kotschy 361 (holo. G! iso. W!).   S. Anatolia. Cappadocia, Aucher 1456 (syntype of A. amplexicaulis)] C4 Içel: between Gilindire and Gülnar, 600-700 m, D. 26043! C5 Içel: Gülek boğazi, 800 m, Hub.-Mor. 13543! Adana: Burujik (Bürücek), 1000 m, H. Demiriz 1253! C6 Adana: 23 km from Osmaniye to Fevzipaşa, 400 m, Hub.-Mor. 13545! C9 Siirt: 5 km E. of Siirt, 1150 m, Frödin 1939:167!   Endemic. E. Medit. element. Related to A. trichophila. Erroneously recorded from C3 Antalya: Terrnessos (Quézel et al.). Their gathering probably belongs to A. tubulosa.