Asteraceae

Cirsium adjaricum

Cirsium MILLER Cirsium adjaricum SOMM. ET LEV. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: koruluk, otlak Minimum yükseklik: -1 Maksimum yükseklik: 1800 Endemik: - Element: Karadeniz (Dağ) Türkiye dağılımı: KD. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Gürcistan Bulunduğu kareler:A8

C. adjaricum Somm. & Lev., in Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. n.s. 2(1):20 (1895). Syn: C. noli-tangere Somm. & Lev. op. cit. 11 (1895); C. caucasicum (Adams) Petrak subsp. cladophorum Petrak in Trudy Tiflissk. Bot. Sada 12(1): 39 (1912) pro parte. Ic: Fl. Gruzii 8: t. 414 (1952). Figure 17, p. 377.   Perennial (?), up to at least 100 cm (fide Petrak). Stem branched, purplish, unwinged, sparsely to densely arachnoid. Median cauline leaves semi-amplexicaul, narrowly ovate-oblong, pinnatisect, lateral lobes bifid, toothed, 4-8-paired, triangular, as in C. caucasicum, lateral and terminal lobes and teeth with 5-18 mm apical spine, spinose-strigose above, setae sometimes intergrading with spines, 0.2-12.5 mm, glabrous; tomentose below. Lateral branches 2-4, 1-4-capitulate. Uppermost leaves 1-3, equal to or longer than involucre. Involucres nodding, depressed-globose, 25-40 mm. Phyllaries arachnoid, c. 7-9-seriate, refiexed or erecto-patent, purplish with stramineous base and apical spine; median 20-30 mm, incl. 8-20 x 0.2-0.4 mm apical spine. Corollas purple, 23-26 mm. Achenes 4-5.5 mm. Pappus 20-23 mm- Fl. 8. In woods and pastures, ascending to 1800 m.   Type: [Georgia] in Adjaria in Anticaucaso occid. (F).   N.E. Anatolia. A8 Çoruh: Sawal Tepe above Murgul, 1800 m, D. 32387! 32389! Chopa (Hopa), 19 vii 1917, Schischkini   Georgia (Adjaria). Euxine (mt.) element. Not always very clearly distinguished from C. caucasicum with whose range it partly overlaps.