Rubiaceae

Asperula pestalozzae

Asperula pestalozzae

Asperula L. Asperula pestalozzae BOISS. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: yarıçalı Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: kayalık yamaçlar ve stepler, kireçtaşı, kumtaşı, marl, kil Minimum yükseklik: 300 Maksimum yükseklik: 2300 Endemik: endemik Element: Karadeniz Türkiye dağılımı: K. ve komşusu O. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Türkiye Bulunduğu kareler:A2 A3 A4 A5 A7 A8

A. pestalozzae Boiss., Diagn. ser. 2(2): 112 (1856). Syn: A. graveolens auct. p.p. non Bieb. ex Besser (1827); A. cynanchica L. var. supina Griseb., Spic. 2:165 (1846); Galium suberosum sensu Griseb., op. cit. 161 (1846) non Sm. (1806); A. graveolens Bieb. ex Besser var. pestalozzae (Boiss.) Boiss., Fl. Or. 3:41 (1875)! A. graveolens Bieb. ex Besser var. majoriflora Bornm. in Feddes Rep. Beih. 89:299 (1941)! A. bornmuelleri Velen. subsp. cappadocica Bornm. in Feddes Rep. Beih. 89(2):298 (1941). Figure 23. Map 107.   Caespitose semi-shrub, with prostrate stems and ascending to erect, basally densely leafy, flowering and vegetative branches. Flowering stems (13-)20-60 cm, quadrangular, glabrous to somewhat puberulent or scabrid-hispid in their lower parts, with condensed basal and elongate upper internodes. Leaves 4-15(-25) x 0.3-0.75 mm, linear to filiform, mucronate to aristate, with hyaline tips to c. 0.7 mm and strongly revolute margins, scabrid to hispid or nearly glabrous, ± spreading to recurved. Flowers in head-like cymes terminating branched axes of inflorescence, rarely in 1-2 intercalary verticillasters. Bracts 2-4 mm, lanceolate to ovate, mostly aristate, finely denticulate to entire, glabrous. Corolla pale pink, 2-3 mm, infundibular, with tube 2 x as long or only somewhat shorter than the ovate-oblong, acute lobes, ± hispid outside, sometimes nearly glabrous. Ovary papillose. Mericarps c. 2 mm, verrucose, dark brown. Fl. 7-8. Rocky slopes and steppes, limestone, sandstone, marl and clay, 300-2300 m.   Type: [Turkey A3 Bolu] Bithynia prope Bolu, Pestalozza (holo. G, iso. W!).   N. & adjacent C. Anatolia. A2(A) Bilecik: Pazaryeri, 750 m, D. 36491! A3 Bolu: N. of Bolu, 810 m, Wagenitz & Beug 115! A4 Kastamonu: W. of Kastamonu, 800 m, D. 38758! Zonguldak: Karabük to Safranbolu, 450 m, D. 37943! A5 Kastamonu: Tosya, Sint. 1892:4608! Sinop: 13 km W. of Boyabat, Sorger 69-16-30! Amasya: Amasya, 500-600 m, Bornm. 1889:498! Samsun: Ladik, Haman road, 900 m, Tobey 2286! A7 Gümüşane: 23 km S.E. of Gümüşane, 1300 m, Hub.-Mor. 14886! A8 Erzurum: 6 km S. of Tortum G., gorge W. of road, 1150-1200 m, Ehrend. et al. 787-122-6! B5 Yozgat: Kayseri to Yozgat, 1360 m, Bornm. 1890:2391. B6 Sivas: road from Artova to Sivas, Çamlibel Da., N. of pass, 1650 m, 22 vi 1955, Simon!   Endemic. Euxine element. Close to A. woronowii but always distinguishable by its hispid and not verruculose corollas.