Apiaceae

Bunium paucifolium var. paucifolium

Bunium paucifolium var. paucifolium

Bunium L. Bunium paucifolium DC. var. paucifolium DC. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Habitat: nadas tarlalar, step, çayırlar, yolkenarları, çağıllar, kayalık yamaçlar Minimum yükseklik: 500 Maksimum yükseklik: 2400 Endemik: - Element: İran-Turan Türkiye dağılımı: D. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Kafkasya, Gürcistan, Azerbaycan, Ermenistan, K. Irak, İran, B. Suriye, Suriye Çöl Bulunduğu kareler:A7 A9 B6 B7 B8 B9 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10

B. paucifolium DC, Prodr. 4:117 (1830). Syn: Carum elegans Fenzl, Pug. 16 (1842); Bunium elegans (Fenzl) Freyn in Öst. Bot. Zeitschr. 3:83 (1892). Figure 7, p. 277. Map 53, p. 341.   Glabrous ascending or erect perennial with branched terete finely ridged stems, 10-120 cm. Basal leaves triangular, up to 30x13 cm, 2-3-pinnate; ultimate segments linear, very variable in length. Upper cauline leaves 1-2-pinnate with linear to filiform segments and sheathing petioles. Rays 3-15, ± equal, 5-40 mm. Bracts 2-9, 1-20 x 0-5-2 mm. Bracteoles 1-7, 1.5-10 x c. 0.5 mm. Flowers white or pinkish, 5-20 per umbellule; petals not inflexed, c. 2 mm long. Fruits oblong, glabrous, c. 5x2 mm; styles 2-3 mm, spreading to defiexed; stylopodium ± flat. A common and very variable species in eastern Anatolia, easily recognized by the large petals and long fruiting styles. Many varieties have been recognized based on the variation or degree of branching, bract length, number of rays, length of pedicels, etc. Although many of these taxa completely intergrade, three are probably worth recognizing. 1. Rays short, 10-15 mm; pedicels stellately spreading and about as long as fruit var. brevipes 1. Rays 10-40 mm; pedicels not stellately spreading in fruit, shorter or longer than fruit    2. Stems unbranched below, much branched in inflorescence region; rays 3-6 var. junceum    2. Stems branched from base; rays 6-15 var. paucifolium var. paucifolium. Syn: Carum noeanum Boiss., Diagn. ser. 2(2):77 (1856); C. elegans Fenzl var. noeanum (Boiss.) Boiss., Fl. Or. 2:884 (1872); Bunium elegans (Fenzl) Freyn var. luxuriant Freyn & Sint. in Öst. Bot. Zeitschr. 42:84 (1892); B. elegans (Fenzl) Freyn var. typicum Wolff and var. noeanum (Boiss.) Wolff in Engler. Pflanzenreich 90 (IV. 228): 189 (1927). Fl. 6-7. Fallow fields, in steppe, meadows, roadsides, scree, rocky slopes, 500-2400 m.   Type: [Iran] in convallibus herbidis montium Seidkhodzensium, 18 vi 1828, Fischer 468 (photo!).   E. Anatolia. A7 Gümüşane: Stadopi, nr. Uya Da., Sint. 1894:6052! A9 Kars: S. of Sarikamiş (Grossheim 7: map 84). B6 Sivas: Sivas, 1893, Oskian! B7 Elaziğ: Maden, 1300 m, D. 290791 B8 Erzurum: 10 km N. of Hinis, 1630 m, D. 46233! B9 Ağri: Suluçem, S. end of Balik G., 2300 m, D. 47183. C6 Adana: Hadjin to Karakilise, G. & B. Post917 C7 Malatya: Malatya to Gölbaşi, Alava 7037! C7 Urfa: Urfa to Akçakale, 500 m, D. 28090! C8 Mardin: Mardin to Nusaybin, 600 m, D. 28412! C9 Mardin: Cudi Da. above Hessana, 1400-1500 m, D. 42324! C10 Hakkari: Sat Da., c. 2400 m, D. 45511!   Caucasus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Soviet Armenia, N. Iraq, Iran, W. Syria,Syrian desert. Ir.-Tur. element. Very variable in the lengths of pedicels, bracteoles and bracts.