Oleaceae

Fraxinus ornus subsp cilicica

Fraxinus L. Fraxinus ornus L. subsp. cilicica (LINGELSH.) YALT. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ağaç Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 4 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Habitat: yaprak döken çalılık veya orman (başlıca Quercus-Ostrya), kireçtaşı kayalık yamaçlar Minimum yükseklik: 900 Maksimum yükseklik: 1450 Endemik: endemik Element: D. Akdeniz Türkiye dağılımı: G. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Türkiye ? Bulunduğu kareler:A1 A2 B1 B3 C1 C3 C4 C5 C6

F. ornus L, Sp. PI. 1057 (1753).   Tree to 20 m. Bark of old trunks smooth. Young twigs grey or greenish-grey, glabrous. Winter buds brown or brownish-grey, finely pubescent. Leaflets 2-4(-5)-paired, stalked (petiolule 2-18 mm), ovate to lanceolate, usually 6-10 (-13) x (2-)2-5-6 cm, abruptly and shortly acuminate or long-acuminate, glabrous on both sides or brownish-pubescent along midrib and on main veins beneath, margin neatly crenate-serrate (teeth 25-45 on each side). Panicles large, terminal and often axillary on leafy twigs. Flowers fragrant. Corolla lobes linear, usually 6(-10) mm, longer than stamens or nearly equal. Fruit linear-oblanceolate, 2-2.5 x 0.3-0-4 cm, body of samara terete with persistent calyx. " 1. Leaflets brownish-pubescent along midrib, short stalked (petiolule 2-6 mm), abruptly and shortly acuminate subsp. ornus 1. Leaflets glabrous on both sides, long stalked (petiolule 6-16 mm), long acuminate subsp. cilicica subsp. cilicica (Lingelsh.) Yalt. in Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 28:14 (1967). Syn: F. petiolulata Boiss. & Kotschy in Boiss., Diagn. ser. 2(3): 119 (1886); F. cilicica Lingelsh. in Bot. Jahrb. 40: 213 (1907); F. kotschyi C. K.Schneider in Feddes Rep. 10:163(1911). Ic: Schneider, III. Handb. Laubh. 2:814, f. 513, e(1911). Map 14, p. 151. Fl. 4-5. Deciduous scrub or forest (mainly Quercus-Ostrya), mostly on rocky limestone slopes, (600-)900-1450(-2300) m.   Syntypes: [C5 lçel] Cilicien, Güllek Gula (Gülek Kale), 1400 m, Siehe 1896: 419 (E! BM!), Kotschy 329.   S. Anatolia. B3 Konya: Akşehir, Kara Da., Tanker et al. 8100! C3 lsparta: Eğridir, Yugurigökdere, Kasnak forest, 1460 m, Gökşin 9329! Antalya: nr Tcharyklar (Çariklar), Boıırgeau 237! C4 Antalya: Gündoğmuş, 1200 m, Çetik 3672! C5 Adana/lçel: Cilician Taurus. Kotschy 1853: 356a (type ofF, petiolulata)'. Adana: d. Feke, Göksu gorge below Himmetli, 700-800 m, D. 19797! C6 Hatay: d. Belen, Karlitepe above Soğukoluk. 1400 m, D. 27113! Maraş: Zeytün to Berit Da., 1000 m, Balls 1065!   Endemic? E. Medit. element.   Having seen plentiful material of Fraxinus ornus L. from Europe, one can say that its leaf shape is very variable - the only rather constant distinguishing characters, correlated with different distributions, are indumentum and petiolule length. Three species, F. petiohilata Boiss., F. cilicica Lingelsh., F. kotschyi C.K.Schneider, have so far been described from Cilicia and the Anti-Taurus, based on differences in leaf shape and flower size; they all differ from typical F. ornus in their longer petiolules and quite glabrous leaflets. However, the differences which have been claimed to distinguish these three S. Anatolian 'species' from one another are not constant, so that it is not practicable to maintain them as distinct taxa. Furthermore, some intermediates have been seen between this S. Anatolian group and typical F. onu/s, so that it seems necessary to treat the former as one variable subspecies of F. ornus - subsp. cilicica.   The following sterile S.W. Anatolian specimens differ from all other material of subsp. cilicica in their exceptionally broad leaflets (to 13x6 cm): C3 Antalya: d. Alanya, Kargi Cayi nr Kozlu De., D. 14283! d. Kemer, Teke Da. nr Ovacik' 1100-1200 m, D. 15198! lsparta: Yukarigökdere köyü. Tenler De., 910-1300 m, Çağırt kan & Aydın 6090! The following specimens are intermediate between subspecies oriuis and cilicica: A2(A) Istanbul: d. Yalova, Çinarcik, Teşvikiye, Araptarla De., Kayacık 5928! Bl Izmir: d. Kemalpaşa, Nif Da., 400 m, Argat 7596! Manisa: mt. Sipylos, nr Magnesia (Manisa), Bal. 382! Cl lzmir: d. Kuşadasi, Samsun Da., Sarikaya De. to Balliburun, Kayacık & Yalı. 3459! C6 Adana: Osmaniye to Kötüköy, 200 m, Kiihne 1390! Osmaniye, Kasapligil 59! Hatay: Düldül Da., 1700-2300 m, Haradj. 2368! Dörtyol, MigirTepe, 1200 m, Akbaş 92! Maraş: d. Andirin, Sarim-sak Da., 1000 m, Ay tuğ 408! Is: Samos, Fors.-Maj. 774! F. ornus extends into Latakia and Lebanon, but I do not know which forms are involved.