Asteraceae

Cirsium pseudopersonata subsp. kusnezowianum

Cirsium MILLER Cirsium pseudopersonata BOISS. ET BAL. subsp. kusnezowianum (SOMM. ET LEV.) PETRAK Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: orman, gölgeli kıyı, akarsu kenarı, alpin çayır Minimum yükseklik: 1480 Maksimum yükseklik: 2290 Endemik: - Element: Karadeniz Türkiye dağılımı: KD. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: B. Kafkasya Bulunduğu kareler:A7 A8

C. pseudopersonata Boiss. & Bal. in Boiss., Fl. Or. 3:545 (1875).   Softly spinulose perennial, 100-250 cm. Stems unwinged, unbranched or laxly branched above, bearing terminal corymbs of several ± confered capitula. Cauline leaves softly herbaceous, median elliptic, 10-30 x 6-16 cm, bidentate, sessile, rounded, semi-amplexicaul or shortly hastate at base, upper surface sparsely papillose-hairy, lower surface ± densely floccose-arachnoid with uni-cellular hairs or with sparse short hairs; marginal spines weak, 0.5-l(-2) mm. Involucres hemispherical, 15-20 mm, capitula often subtended by a few reduced linear-lanceolate spinulose leaves. Phyllaries 6-8-seriate, minutely subpapillose, median oblong-lanceolate, dark and subciliolate above, slenderly vittate and attenuate into a 1-3 mm spine. Corollas 16-18 mm, purple. Achenes 4 mm. Pappus 14-16 mm. Fl. 7-8. Forests (Picea orientalis etc.), shady banks and stream sides, alpine meadows, 1480-2290 m. 1. Leaves ± densely floccose-arachnoid below with long unicellular hairs subsp. pseudopersonata 1. Leaves with short scattered hairs below, or subglabrous subsp. kuznezowianum subsp. kusnezowianum (Somm. & Lev.) Petrak in Mitt. Thür. Bot. Ges. 2(1):33 (1960). Syn: C. kusnezowianum Somm. & Lev. in Acta Horti Petrop. 12:155 (1892). Ic: Somm. & Lev. in Acta Horti Petrop. 16:211, t. 27 (1900).   Syntypes from Georgia (Abkhazia), 19 & 26 viii 1890, Sommier & Levier. N.E. Anatolia. A8 Çoruh: d. Artvin, between Salalet and Chinzart, Woronow 5527; above Schloban, Woronow 5526 (fide Petrak in Monit. Jard. Bot. Tiflis 24:12, 1912).   W. Caucasia. Euxine element, allopatric with subsp. pseudopersonata. A distinctive species characteristic of the Colchic sector of the Euxine province.