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Alkanna trichophila HUB.-MOR. var. mardinensis HUB.-MOR. |
Alkanna TAUSCH |
| A. trichophila Hub.-Mor. in Bauhinia 2:201 (1963). Figure 16, p. 417. Plant 15-30 cm, with dense ± spreading eglandular robust 2-3 mm setae and
minute pubescent eglandular and glandular hairs. Basal leaves linear-lanceolate, 5-15 x 0.5-l-5cm; cauline linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2-8 x 0.3-l.5cm. Cymes 10-15 cm in fruit. Bracts linear-lanceolate, 1-3.5 x 0.5-0.8 cm. Calyx_8-10 mm in flower, 11-15 mm in fruit. Corolla yellow, 7-14(-16) mm, limb 3-4(-8) mm diam., ± puberulent and glandular outside. Nutlets 3.5-4(-5) mm diam., scrobiculate-reticulate; beak strongly deflexed. Fl. 5-7. Stony limestone slopes, steppe, vine-yards, 300-2100 m. 1. Indumentum densely setose, without transitions between short glandular-pubescent and long setiform hairs var. trichophila 1. Indumentum moderately setose, passing gradually from glandular-pubescent to hispid-setiform hairs var. mardinensis var. mardinensis Hub.-Mor. in Bauhinia 2:202 (1963). Type: Turkey C8 Mardin: Distr. Mardin, Kiziltepe-Mardin, steinige Steppe 5 km unterhaib Mardin, 730 m, 23 v 1956, Huber-Morath 13546 (holo. Hb. Hub.-Mor.!). E. Anatolia. B7 Diyarbakır: 5 km N. of Ergani, 1100 m, D. 29021! C8 Diyar-bakir: Çinar to Diyarbakir, 700 m, D. 28683! Siirt: 20 km from Beşiri to Kurtalan, 650 m, D. 42990! Mardin: Mardin, Sint. 1888:988! C9 Siirt: Şirnak, 1400-1500 m, D. 42555! C10 Hakkari: Ziri, S. slopes of Cilo Da., 2130 m, Trelawny 1821! Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element. Closely related to A. kotschyana. |