Orchidaceae

Cephalanthera kurdica

Cephalanthera L. C. M. RICHARD Cephalanthera kurdica BORNM. EX KRANZLIN Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 4 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Habitat: maki, Quercus ve Konifer ormanları, kalkerli ve şiştli topraklar Minimum yükseklik: 0 Maksimum yükseklik: 1500 Endemik: - Element: İran-Turan Türkiye dağılımı: KD., D. G. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: K. Irak, KB. ve B. İran Bulunduğu kareler:A8 A9 B3 B8 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9

C. kurdica Bornm. ex Kranzlin in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3:143 (1895), emend. Bornm. in Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 48:636 (1898). Syn: C. andrusi G.Post in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3:163 (1895); C. floribunda Woronow in Monit. Jard. Bot. Tiflis 10:22(1908). Ic: Renz in Rech. SL.FL Iranica 126: t. 6 (1978). Map 69.   Plants rather slender, sometimes dwarf, I0-50(-70) cm. Stem with sheaths in lower part, leafy above. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, to 5 cm, passing into leaf-like bracts. Spike ± dense, many-flowered, to 40 cm, with flowers sometimes borne just above soil. Flowers bright rose, rarely whitish. Sepals sightly spreading, to 25 mm. Petals shorter. Hypochile with broadly triangular lateral lobes; epichile cordate-ovate, with 6-7 longitudinal crests, margins minutely papillose. Spur conical, c. 4 mm. Fl. 4-5(-6). Mscchie, Quercus and coniferous forest, preferring calcareous and schistose soil, to 1500 m.   Type: [Iraq] Kurdistania: (Assyria orient.) In montis Kuh Setin reg. infer. ad pagum Schaklava (ditionis Esbil), 1100-1200 m, [27 v 1893], Bommüller 1833 (holo. B!iso.JE!).   N.E., E. & S. Anatolia. A8 Erzurum: nr Tortum, 1859, Calvert! A9 Çoruh: Tütünlü to Hamarlu, 1000 m, Renz & Taub. 12135! valley below Jeni-Rabat, 17 v 1907, Woronow (type of C. floribunda). B3 Isparta: 10 km E. of Gelen-dost, 1050 m, Taub. 76.299! B8 Diyarbakir: 28 km from Lice to Diyarbakir, 850 m, Mangold & Taub. 81.70! C2 Antalya: Elmali, 10 v 1860, Bourgeau. C3 Konya: 23 km N. of Beyşehir towards Konya, 1220 m, Taub. 76.369! C4 Içel: Mut to Büyük Eğri Da., 1000 m, Coode & Jones 839! C5 Adana: Tarsus to Pozanti, nr Gülek, 700 m, Renz 11614! C6 Hatay: Amanus mts., Belen pass, Watson 761! C7 Adiyaman: Nemrut Da. nr Kahta, 1883, Luschan. C8 Mardin: 10 km N. of Mardin, 950 m, Taub. 78.248! Tigris (Dicle) river, G. Post 439 (type of C. andrusi). C9 Mardin: Cudi Da. above Hessana, 1200-1400m,D.42792!   N. Iraq, N.W. & W. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element? An eastern vicariad of the E. Mediterranean white-flowered C. epipactoides. C. floribunda Woronow from A9 Çoruh is described as having dingy purplish, somewhat scabrous, papillose flowers.