Asteraceae

Centaurea cheiranthifolia var. cheiranthifolia

Centaurea cheiranthifolia var. cheiranthifolia

Centaurea L. Centaurea cheiranthifolia WILLD. var. cheiranthifolia WILLD. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: mağmatik kaya, otlak yamaç, Pinus sylvestris ormanı, betula ormanı Minimum yükseklik: 2300 Maksimum yükseklik: 2750 Endemik: - Element: Karadeniz (Dağ) Türkiye dağılımı: D. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Kafkasya Bulunduğu kareler:A8 A9 B9 B10

C. cheiranthifolia Willd., Phytogr. 1:12, t. 7 (1794).   Perennial, rhizome ending in a rosette of leaves, flowering stems lateral, decumbent to ascending, 10-50 cm, simple or with few short branches in upper part. Leaves ± densely floccose- to villous-tomentose; those of sterile rosettes lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, entire or with l-2(-3) pairs of lobes or coarse teeth, cauline leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, entire or with few coarse teeth, shortly decurrent. Involucre 18-25 x 15-25 mm, ovoid to subglobose; capitula (inci. marginal flowers) 4.5-7(-8) cm diam. Appendages a broad blackish brown border (concealing most of basal part of phyllaries) with numerous silvery 2.5-4 mm cilia. Flowers whitish (creamy white, yellow when dry) or rose-purple to violet-purple (very rarely blue), anther-tube steel blue, marginal flowers strongly radiant. Achenes 5.5-6 mm; pappus 1-3 mm. Fl. 6-7 (-8). Igneous rocky or grassy slopes, open Pinus sylvestris and Betuda forests, 1900-2750 m. 1. Flowers creamy white var. cheiranthifolia 1. Flowers rose-purple to violet-purple (or blue) var. purpurascens var. cheiranthifolia. Syn: C. ochroleuca Puschk. ex Willd., Sp. PL 3(3):2289 (1803)! C. montana L. var. albida DC. & var. citrina DC, Prodr. 6:579 (1838); C. axillaris Willd. var. ochroleuca (Willd.) Boiss., Fl. Or. 3:636 (1875)! C.fischeri Willd. subsp. ochroleuca (Willd.) Sosn. & subsp. cheiranthifolia (Willd.) Sosn. in Monit. Jard. Bot. Tiflis n.s. 2:85-86 (1926). Ic: Bot. Mag. t. 1175 (1809); Bieb., Cent. PL Rar. Ross. 1: t. 46 (1810).   Type: Armenia [Tournefort?] (holo. B-Hb. Willd. 16554!).   E. Anatolia. A8 Erzurum: E. of Jerik Da., E.S.E. of Ispir, 2750 m, Barclay 943! A9 Kars: Yağmurlu Da. between Karaurgan & Sarikamiş, 2350 m, D. 29479! B9 Ağri: Ala Da. from Diyadin, Hudavendigar Tepe, Watson et al. 3045! B10 Kars: Küçük Ağri Da. nr Serdar Bulak, 2300 m, 2450 m, D. 46915! Demiriz 3385!   Caucasia. Euxine (mt.) element.