Aristolochiaceae |
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Aristolochia bottae JAUB. ET SPACH |
Aristolochia bottae JAUB. ET SPACH |
Aristolochia bottae JAUB. ET SPACH |
Aristolochia bottae JAUB. ET SPACH |
Aristolochia bottae JAUB. ET SPACH |
Aristolochia L. |
A. bottae Jaub. & Spach, I11. Pl. Or. l(10):173, t. 98 (1844). Syn: A. maurorum L. var. latifolia Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:1080 (1879), excl. pl. cilicica! Ic: Grossh., Fl. Kavk. ed. 2, 3: t. 6 f. 12 (1945); Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 23:537, f. lA (1961). Rootstock cylindrical, to 1 m long and 1.5-2 cm thick. Stems erect, 15-40 cm, branched, hirtellous. Leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 2.5-7(-10) x 1.5-6 cm, acute to obtuse, often mucronate, puberulous, base widely subhastate, auricles longer than broad, oblong-spathulate, widely divaricate with tips ± incurved; petiole 2-10 mm. Peduncles 3-6 cm. Perianth 4.5-7.5 cm long, pale brown or greenish-brown outside, glabrous to puberulous; utricle 8-18 x 7-17 mm, ovoid to ovoid-oblong; tube U-curved, 4-9 mm broad at base, gradually dilated above to 6-12 mm broad; limb 1.8-4 x 1.9-3.1 cm, ovate, acute or obtuse, rarely retuse, inside light brown, spotted yellowish-green or heavily blotched maroon on yellowish-green ground, hairy at throat, auricles rounded, obtuse. Ovary tomentose. Capsule obovoid, 4-6.5 x 2-3.4 cm. Fl. 3-6. Rocky basalt gullies, limestone slopes in Quercus scrub, stony waste land and cultivated fields, 1250-1700 m. Syntypes: [Turkey C8 Diyarbakir] in Armenia australiori(prope hodiemum urbem Diarbekir), Botta (P), Jaubert (P), et [Iran] in Hyrcania (ad montem Elbourz), Aucher-Eloy (P). E. Anatolia. A7 Trabzon: Istavri, 1800 m, Huxley 121! Gümüşane: Gümüş-ane, 1300 m, Stainton 8330 (leaves exceptionally narrow)! B7 Sivas: Divriği, Demirdağ, T. Baytop (ISTE 13394)! B8 Siirt: Halkis Da., W. of Sason, 1300 m, Watson et al. 1157! B9 Bitlis: 2 km S. of Adilcevaz, D. 43428! C7 Urfa: N. slope of Karacadağ, between Siverek and Diyarbakir, 1250 m, D. 28308! C8 Mardin: Mardin castle, 1200 m, D. 28344! C9 Siirt: above Şirnak, 1450 m, D. 42629! Bitlis: 2 km S. of Bitlis, 1830 m, Stutz 1442! Easily confused with A. maurorum L. but distinguished by its branched stems, leaves widening more gradually below into shorter, less spreading auri-cles, and perianth limb that is not abruptly acuminate but gradually narrowed distally. It has a more southerly and eastern general distribution than that of A. maurorum. W. Syria, Syrian Desert, N. Iraq, Iran, Nakhichevan. Ir.-Tur. element. |