Liliaceae

Colchicum kotschyi

Colchicum L. Colchicum kotschyi BOISS. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 11 Habitat: Pinus koruluklarının yanında, kalkerli uçurumlar Minimum yükseklik: 1000 Maksimum yükseklik: 3000 Endemik: - Element: İran-Turan Türkiye dağılımı: Karasal Anadolu Genel dağılımı: İran, Irak Bulunduğu kareler:A3 B1 B6 B8 B9 C3 C5 C6 C7 C8

C. kotschyi Boiss., Diagn. ser. S(13):38(1853). Syn: ?C. persîcum Baker in J. Iinn. Soc. (Bot.) 17:430 (1879);C candidum Schott & Kotschy ex Boiss. var. hirtiflorum Boiss., Fl. Oγ. 5:160 (1882)1 C. imperatoris-frederici Siehe in sched.! îc: Bot. Mag. 176: ajs. t. 520 (1967); Weisdeibo, Tulips & Irises of Iran 13, t. 2 (1977). Map 49.   Corm ovoid, 3-4(-5) x 2-3 cm, outer tunics dark brown, inner chestnut-brown, membranous to subcoriaceous, apex produced into a persistent neck3-14 cm. Leaves 3-4(-5), hysteranthous, erecto-patent, elliptic-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 10-12(-16) x 3-5 cm, rounded to subacute, glabrous, margins slightly undulate. Flowers 3-5(-l 2), funnel-shaped. Perianth segments white to purplish-pink, narrowly oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, (2.3-)3-5.5 cm x (4-)6-12 am, obtuse to subacute, pubescent along bases of ridges of filament channels. Filaments 7-12 mm, with swollen, orange-yellow base, glabrous; anthers yellow, (6-)8-12 x 1-1.5 mm, with membranous longitudinal margins; pollen yellow. Styles curved at apex, stigmas decurrent for 2-4 mm. Capsule oblong-ovoid, 3-4.5 x 2 cm, light to mid-brown, glabrous, rostrate. FL 8-11. Edges of Units woods, limestone cliffs, J 000-3000 m.   Type: {Iran] in solo schistoso ad radices montis Elbrus prope Passgala, viii 1847, .Kotschy 655 (holo. G!). Scattered, mainly in Inner Anatolia. A3 Bolu: Abant G., 1400 m, Pasche &. Taub. 75-23! Bl Izmir: Izmir, Sloser-Baykan (ISTE 23957, fl.)! B6 Maraş: d. Göksün, Berit Da., 2500-3000 m, Yildiz 1566 (leaf &fr.)! B8 Mus,: nr Muş, 2000 ra, Kotschy 1859:553 (fl.)! B9 Bitlis: Saz Köyü, 1600-1700 m, Peşmen 3292 (fl.) C3 Isparta: Kapiz De. 2 km S. of Yaka köyü, 1250-1400 m, Penmen & Güner 2315! C5 içel: Thekla (Tekeler on Göksu river), Siehe 99 (fl. & leaf)! C6 Gaziantep: Nur Da. pass, 1000 m, Watson et al. 3868 (fl.)! C7 Diyarbakır: 60 km S.W. of Diyarbakir, 1050 m, Leep & Pasche 70-36, cult. Pasche, 9 ix İ972 (fl.)! C8 Mardin: 10 km N. of Mardin, 1100 m, Leep & Pasche 70-37, cult. Pasche, 11 ix 1971 (fl.)!   Iraq, Iran. Ir.-Tur. element. Confused in herbaria and literature with C. balansae Planchon and C. troodii Kotschy (C decaisnei Boiss.). Material named C. imperatoTis-frederid (Siehe 99 from the Calyeadmus or Göksu river) appears to be referable to C. kotschyi.   Cyprus, W. Syria. E. Medit. element. Comparison of a wide range of material of C. troodii and C. decaisnei has provided no constant, significant characters by which to separate them. Considerable variation in the relative proportions of the perianth segments may be found between individuals in single populations, as well as variation in the size of the leaves, although the relative lengths and breadths of the leaves remain more or less in proportion. Much confusion exists in herbaria between C. troodii (incl. C. decaisnei), C, haussk-nechtii Boiss. and C. hierosolymitanum Feinbrun as it is rarely possible to associate, with any confidence, flowering material with specimens of leaves and fruit. Fruiting specimens of C. troodii from Turkey and Cyprus lack the minute brown dots on the surface of the capsule given as a character for C. decaisnei Boiss. by Feinbrun (Pal. J. Bot., Jer. Ser. 6:84, 1953). The capsules on the Haussknecht specimen (C6 Hatay: in Amano inter Beilan et Ain el Beitha, 13 iii 1865, Hausskn.!) used by Boissier in his original diagnosis do not show this character and Feinbrun's description of the leaves and capsules of C. decaisnei may possibly be based on material of C. haussknechtii or C. hierosolymitanum, both of which do have brown dots on the capsule surfaces.