Asteraceae

Centaurea pulcherrima var. pulcherrima

Centaurea L. Centaurea pulcherrima WILLD. var. pulcherrima WILLD. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: kayalık yamaç, çağıllık Minimum yükseklik: 2000 Maksimum yükseklik: 3500 Endemik: - Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: D. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Transkafkasya Bulunduğu kareler:A7 A8 A9 B8 B9 B10

C. pulcherrima Willd., Sp. Pl. 3(3):2298 (1803).   Perennial with woody base with rosettes and usually several erect or ascending stems, 10-40 cm, simple or more rarely with 1-3 long branches, stems with fibrous remains of decayed petioles at base. Leaves adpressed grey-tomentose below, usually only slightly tomentose to glabrescent above; basal and lower petiolate, very variable, narrowly lanceolate with denticulate margin or with 1-2 lobes or lyrate with large lanceolate terminal segment and 1-2 pairs of lateral segments to pinnatipartite with up to 4 pairs of linear-lanceolate to oblong denticulate or entire lateral segments; median and upper few, sessile, smaller and more often undivided. Involucre 18-25(-28) x 15-25(-30) mm, subglobose. Appendages very large, totally concealing basal part of phyllaries, membranous; outer lanceolate, whitish to straw-coloured; median ovate, light brown, with numerous 2-3(-4) mm cilia. Flowers rose-purple, marginal strongly radiant. Achenes 6-6.5 mm; pappus 11-16 mm, barbellate to plumose, inner row not differentiated. Fl. 7-8. Rocky slopes and scree, 1700-3500 m. 1. Leaves adpressed grey-tomentose below, thinly tomentose and ± green above; form of leaves very variable, their margin ± denticulate var. pulcherrima 1. Leaves grey-tomentose on both sides; pinnatipartite with entire segments var. freynii var. pulcherrima. Syn: Aetheopappiis pulcherrimus (Willd.) Cass., Dict. Sci. Nat. 51:54 (1827)! Amblyopogon concinnus Boiss. & Huet in Boiss., Diagn. ser. 2(3);65 (1856); Centaurea concinna (Boiss. & Huet) Trautv. in Acta Horti Petrop. 2:553 (1873); C. raddeana Trautv., op. cit. 475 (1873); C. rhizocephala Trautv., op. cit. 476 (1873); Aetheopappiis pulcherrimus (Willd.) Cass. var. raddeanus (Trautv.) Bordz. in Monit. Jard. Bot. Tifils n.s. 5:65 (1931). Ic: Fl. Azerb. 8: t. 45(1961).   Type: Described from the 'Orient', probably collected by Gundelsheimer (holo. B-Willd. 16580!).   E. Anatolia. A8 Rize: Djimil (Cimil), 2000 m, 20 viii 1866, Bail Erzurum: Eğerli Da., 2930 m, Demiriz et al. 707! A9 Çoruh/Kars: Yalnizçam Da., 2400 m, Tong 449! Kars: Yağmurlu Da. above Sarikamiş, 2200 m, D. 32631! D. 32633! B8 Erzurum: Tech Da. (Palandöken Da.), vii 1853, Huet (type of Amblyopogon concinnus var. major Boiss.)! Muş: d. Varto, Gümgüm, 2750 m, Kotschy 1859: 389! B9 Bitlis: Nemrut Da., 3050 m, Tong 174! 206! Ağri: 54 km E. of Horasan, 2500 m, Rech. 15068! B10 Kars/Ağri: Büyük Ağri Da., 2750 m, B.Post 2078!   Transcaucasia. A very handsome plant with considerable variation in the height of the stem, size of the heads and especially the shape of the leaves. One specimen has been noted with the pappus only scabrous! It is very doubtful if plants from Caucasia described as separate species in the genus Aetheopappiis (e.g. Ae. caucasicus Sosn. from the Caucasus) really merit specific rank,