| Brassicaceae |
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 Anchonium elichrysifolium (DC.) BOISS. subsp. persicum (DC.) CULLEN ET COODE |
Anchonium DC. |
| A. elichrysifolium (DC.) Boiss., Fl. Or. 1: 240 (1867). Syn: Sterigma elichrysi-folium DC, Syst. 2: 581 (1821). Perennial herb with a short woody stock and numerous sterile rosettes. Stems erect, sometimes scapose, 4-40 cm. Leaves entire, usually canescent, oblanceolate to spathulate, tapering into a long petiole. Flowers very fragrant. Petals bright yellow, (6-)10-13 mm. Siliquae usually lanceolate, often constricted between the seeds, pubescent, 10-30 mm, borne on erect-spreading, or rarely deflexed pedicels. Stigma lobes diverging. A very polymorphic species, divisible in Turkey into 6 subspecies: 1. Petals 6-9 mm; siliquae villous with hair as long as the siliqua is broad subsp. villosum 1. Petals usually 10-13 mm; siliquae less densely pubescent 2. Whole plant densely white-pannose subsp. canescens 2. At most the young leaves white-pannose 3. Stems unbranched, usually scapose subsp. elichrysifolium 3. Stems branched above, usually leafy 4. Plants completely egiandular subsp. persicum 4. Plants with glands on the stems and pedicels 5. Plants canescent as well as glandular subsp. cilicicum 5. Plants principally glandular, with a few branched hairs, but not canescent subsp. glandulosum subsp. persicum (DC.) Cullen & Coode in Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 26: 193 (1965). Syn: A. elichrysifolium var. persicum (DC.) Bornm., in Feddes Rep. Beih. 89(1): 39 (1936); Matthiola persica DC, Syst. 2: 168 (1821). Fl. 6-8. Rocky places, 2750-3300 m. Type: in Persia, Lamb (?). Kurdistan. B9 Bitlis: Nimrud Da., c. 3000 m, Post 1906:715! Bitlis/Van:Mountain 10 km S of Pelli, 2800 m, D. 22537! Van: Ispiriz Da., nr. Başkale, 3300 m, D. 23769! N. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element. |