Capparacaea

Capparis ovata var. herbacea

Capparis L. Capparis ovata DESF. var. herbacea (WILLD.) ZOH. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: çalı? Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 0 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 0 Habitat: ? Minimum yükseklik: 250 Maksimum yükseklik: 600 Endemik: - Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: K., O. ve D. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Kırım, Kafkasya Bulunduğu kareler:A1 A3 A4 A6 A8 B8 C2 C8 C9

C. ovata Desf., Fl. Atl. 1: 404 (1798). Syn: C. spinosa L. var. ovata (Desf.) Batt. ex Jah. & Maire, Cat. PL Maroc: 314 (1932) non Sibth. & Sm. Differs from C. spinosa L. in the elliptic or obovate leaves, often more or less pubescent and usually with a mucro, and in the strongly zygomorphic flowers (having much longer lower petals than upper). Three varieties are recognisable in Turkey: 1. Stipules strong, recurved     2. Stems white; all parts canescent, the gynophore hairy at base; leaves 15-30(-25) x 10-20(-25) mm var. palaestina     2. Stems green or purplish; at most the leaves pubescent, the gynophore glab-rous; leaves 20-35(-40) x 10-22 mm var. canescens 1. Stipules straight, horizontal or slightly upcurved, often weak var. herbacea var. herbacea (Willd.) Zoh., Bull. Res. Counc. Israel, 8D: 56 (1960). Syn: C. herbacea Willd., Enum. Hort. Berol. 560 (1809). The leaves of this variety are larger than those of var. palaestina, being (20-)25-35(-40) x (14-)16-25(-30) mm.   Type: Caucasus, Bieberstein.   Scattered. A6 Tokat: Tokat to Niksar, 600 m, D. 24882! A8 Çoruh: below Artvin, 250 m, D. 32427! C2 Denizli: Denizli to Taş Ocaği, D. 13240! C9 Hak-kari: Kalolans, in Zab Gorge, NE of Çölemerik, D. 23870!   Crimea and Caucasia. This appears to be the commonest variety in Turkey. There are also plants intermediate between var. herbacea and var. palaestina: A3 Ankara: NW of Beypazari, Karaköy, 550 m, Kühne 288! A4 Zonguldak: Karabük, 250 m, D. 39050! C2 Denizli: Denizli to Aydin, 16 miles from Saraköy, 200 m, Dudley, D. 35364!