Asteraceae

Cirsium libanoticum subsp. lycaonicum

Cirsium MILLER Cirsium libanoticum DC. subsp. lycaonicum (BOISS. ET HELDR.) DAVIS ET PARRIS Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: dağ akarsu yanı, kaynak yanı, tarla kenarı Minimum yükseklik: 750 Maksimum yükseklik: 2000 Endemik: endemik Element: D. Akdeniz (Dağ) Türkiye dağılımı: G. Anadolu, GB. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Türkiye Bulunduğu kareler:B6 C2 C3 C4 C5

C. libanoticum DC, Prodr. 6:647 (1838).   Rigid perennial, c. 100-150 cm. Stems (below inflorescence) continuously or interruptedly sinuate-winged, the triangular lobes produced into stout 3-10 mm spines, ± widely branched above into a stiff panicle, branches unwinged or spiny. Median cauline leaves oblong, pinnatifid to ½-¾, 6-12 x 3-5 cm (incl. spines), lobes 4-6-paired, triangular to lanceolate, simple to 3-fid, spines 2-12 mm, lamina ± coriaceous, glabrous, or ± arachnoid below; upper leaves reduced and more deeply dissected into long yellowish spines. Capitula solitary or clustered on branch tips, pedunculate or sessile, often subtended by reduced leaves or spines. Involucres hemispherical or subconical, 12-20 mm. Phyllaries 6-9-seriate, outer and median narrowly ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute with a prominent blackish l.5-2(-3) mm vitta tipped by a 0.5-3 mm erecto-patent yellowish spine. Corollas 15-19 mm, purple (rarely white). Achenes immature. Pappus 13-14 mm. 1. Leaves glabrous or sparsely arachnoid below with multicellular hairs; inflorescence usually with wingless, unarmed internodes; involucre hemi-spherical, 14-20 x 15-22 mm; median phyllaries with 1-3 mm spines subsp. lycaonicum 1. Leaves weakly arachnoid to tomentose below with slender unicellular hairs; inflorescence branches with shortly spiny internodes; involucre hemispherical- obconical (less rounded at base than subsp. lycaonicum and subsp. libanoticum), 12-15x15-20 mm; median phyllaries with0.5-1 mm spines subsp. arachnoideum subsp. lycaonicum (Boiss. & Heldr.) Davis & Parris in Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 33:430(1975). Syn: C. lycaonicum Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., Diagn. ser. l(10):90 (1849)! C. libanoticum DC. var. lycaonicum (Boiss. & Heldr.) Boiss., Fl. Or. 3:549 (1875)! Figure 18, p. 379. Map 43, p. 389. Fl. 6-8. By mountain streams and springs, field margins, (750-)l 100-2000 m.   Type: [Turkey C3 Isparta] inter lapides deciduos in locis irriguis regionis superioris montis Anemas Lycaoniae, 1830 m, 1846, Heldreich (iso. K!).   S. & S.W. Anatolia. C2 Muğla: Sandras Da. at Kökluce, D. 13627! Antalya: Ak Da., 1300 m, Sorger 67-22-65! C4 Konya: nr Ermenek, Péronin 127! C5 Niğde: Ala Da., Demirkazik, Findlay 235! Içel: Bulgar Da. nr Bürücek, 1000-1200 m, 1931, Eig & M.Zohary! Adana: Karanfil, 1980 m, Bisby C41!   Endemic. E. Medit. (rat.) element. This subspecies, almost confined to the Taurus, differs from subsp. libanoticum (Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, Syria (Horns); W. Iran?) by its narrower cauline wings with shorter less stout spines (up to 6-10 mm, instead of 10-20 mm), and usually wingless, unarmed inflorescence branches.