Fabaceae

Cicer anatolicum

Cicer L. Cicer anatolicum ALEF. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: Pinus nigra ormanında, çalılık, kayalık yamaçlar ve çağıllıklar Minimum yükseklik: 1200 Maksimum yükseklik: 3300 Endemik: - Element: İran-Turan Türkiye dağılımı: Karasal Anadolu Genel dağılımı: KB. ve B. İran, K. Irak, Ermenistan Bulunduğu kareler:A5 A7 A8 B2 B5 B7 B8 B9 C4

C. anatolicum Alef. in Bonplandia 9:349 (1861). Ic: Jaub. & Spach. I11. Or. 1:83 t. 43B (1842, as C. songoricum Steph.); Fl. Armenii 4: t. 67 (1962). Map 54, p. 273.   Sturdy, erect or ascending, branched perennial, 20-40 cm. Leaves mostly ending in a tendril; leaflets 4-8-paired, subcoriaceous, cuneate-obovate, 7-18 x 4-13 mm, incised-serrate in the upper two thirds, pilose with numerous glandular and few eglandular hairs. Stipules incised. Peduncle 1-2-flowered, bearing a 3-14 mm subulate awn. Bracts shortly subdentate or entire, c. 1 mm. Flowers c. 20 mm, lilac. Calyx strongly gibbous, (9-)12-15 mm. Legume 20-25 mm, oblong-ellipsoid, glandular-villous. Seeds 2-3, rugulose and papillose. Fl. 5-8. Finus nigra forest, scrub, rocky slopes and screes, 1200-3300 m.   Type: [Turkey B2 Manisa] in dumosis Tmoli (Boz Da.), Boissier (G!).   Mainly Inner Anatolia. A5 Kastamonu: Tosya, Giaurdagh, Sint. 4181! A6 Sivas: 29 km from Zara to Şerefiye Y., 1550 m, Hub.-Mor. 13411. A7 Gümüşane: Argyridagh, Sint. 1894:5741! A8 Erzurum: 30-32 km from Oltu to Tortum, 2100-2200 m, D. 47623! A8/B8 Erzurum: Pasinler to Horasan. 1650 m, D. 29402! B2 Kütahya: Murat Da. (district Gediz), below Hamam, 1200 m, D. 36852! B4 Ankara: Beynam forest, 1300 m, Kasapligil 277! B5 Kayseri: Mt. Argée (Erciyas Da.), 1900 m, Bal.! B7 Erzincan: Keşiş Da. above Cimin, 1900-2100 m, D. 31766! B8/B9 Bitlis: 20 km S of Bitlis, 1830 m, Stutz 1418! B9 Bitlis: Nemrut Da., 2600 m, N. side, McNeill 592 (calyx small)! Süphan Da., 3300 m, D. 24751 (tendrils weakly developed or obsolescent); Van: Şuşanis Da. nr. Van, 2200 m, Hub.-Mor. 9229! C4 Konya: 73 km from Karaman to Ermenek, 1500 m, Hub.-Mor. 8698!   N.W. & W. Iran, N. Iraq, Soviet Armenia. Ir.-Tur. element. Very variable in the form of its leaves and length of its calyx, variation being particularly marked in the vilayet of Bitlis (Nemrut Da.. Süphan Da.). The Persian C. oxyodon Boiss. has been found in N. Iraq, and should be looked for in Hakkari: it can easily be distinguished from C. anatolicum by its cuneate-orbicular leaflets and pale yellowish-green flowers.