Ranunculaceae

Delphinium cilicicum

Delphinium L. Delphinium cilicicum P.H. DAVIS ET KIT TAN Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: otsu Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: vadi, moloz Minimum yükseklik: 2000 Maksimum yükseklik: 2000 Endemik: endemik Element: D. Akdeniz Türkiye dağılımı: G. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Türkiye Bulunduğu kareler:C5

D. cilicicum P.H. Davis & Kit Tan in Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 43:267, t. 1 A-D (1986). (Sect. Delphinastrum DC).   Perennial. Stem flexuous, crispate-hairy, to 40 cm, sparingly branched. Cauline leaves palmatisect, deeply dissected into lanceolate, acute segments 3-15 x 1-2 mm. Racemes 2-4, lax, crispate-hairy. Flowers dark blue. Spur horizontal, c. 12 mm, slender, shortly and obtusely saccate. Upper petals 7 mm, bifid to 1 mm at apex. Lower petals 8-9 mm; claw 4 mm, limb ovate, c. 5 mm, bifid to middle, white-pilose. Follicles 3, ± glabrous, 10 mm; styles c. 3 mm. Fl. 7-8. Ravines and scree, c. 2000 m.   Type: Turkey C5 Adana: Karanfil Dağ, outlier of Ala Dağ (above Parakenda Solakli), N. of Pozanti, ravine, 1980 m, 29 vii 1966, F.A. Bisby B39 (holo. E!).   S. Anatolia (Cilician Taurus). C5 Niğde: nr Maden, side valley 1.2 km above main valley, Darrah 337! Adana: 3-4 km N. of Pozanti, Aberdeen Univ. Amanus Exped. Nl 807!   Endemic. E. Medit. element. Allied to D. caseyi B.L. Burtt (endemic to Cyprus), differing in its dark blue flowers, horizontal and more saccate sepal spur which is 2 x (not 1.5 x) the length of the sepals, and more slender leaf segments.