Lamiaceae

Micromeria fruticosa subsp. brachycalyx

Micromeria BENTHAM Micromeria fruticosa (L.) DRUCE subsp. brachycalyx P. H. DAVIS Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: odunsu ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: kayalık kireçtaşı yamaçlar ve granit kayalar Minimum yükseklik: 90 Maksimum yükseklik: 1830 Endemik: - Element: D. Akdeniz Türkiye dağılımı: G. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Sicilya Bulunduğu kareler :A7 A8 C3 C5 C6

M. fruticosa (L.) Druce in Rep. Bot. Exch. C1. Brit. Isles 3:421 (1914). Syn: Melissa fruticosa L., Sp. P1. 593 (1753);Micromeria marifolia Bentham, Lab. Gen. Sp. 382 (1834). Ic: Fiori, Ic. Fl. Ital. f. 3188 (1902), as subsp. fruticosa. Canescent suffrutescent perennial herb, 20-60 cm, smelling of peppermint when crushed. Stems erect or ascending, simple or branched, like the leaves whitish or greyish adpressed-velutinous, with long internodes. Median leaves ovate, 13-35 x 7-15 mm, flat, entire or obscurely and remotely crenate-dentate, ± glandular-perforate beneath; petiole 2-9 mm. Thyrse interrupted or dense, cylindrical to ovate-oblong, 5-17 x 1.5-5 cm. Cymules much branched, many-flowered, with very small bracteoles. Floral leaves 1.5 x verticillasters to much shorter. Calyx turbinate to obconical-cylindrical, 1.5-2.5 mm, densely adpressed-tomentellous, divided to 1/6-1/4 into triangular obtuse teeth,throat conspicuously bearded or not. Corolla (3-)4-7 mm, white, lower lip often mauve-spotted. Nutlets 1 x 0.4 mm, oblong, acute, subapiculate. Fl. 6-8. 1. Upper verticillasters richly branched into a compact ovate-oblong head (2.5-)3-5 cm broad; calyx throat strongly bearded (S. Amanus) subsp. barbata 1. Verticillasters ± distant, forming an elongate interrupted inflorescence 1.5- 3 cm broad; calyx throat bearded or ± naked    2. Calyx not visibly bearded at throat, obconical-cylindrical, c. 2.5 mm; stems erect (N.E. Anatolia) subsp. serpyllifolia    2. Calyx throat conspicuously bearded at throat, 1.5-2.5 mm; stems erect or procumbent      3. Calyx 2-2.5 mm, obconical-cylindrical; stems procumbent (N.E. Anatolia) subsp. giresunica      3. Calyx 1.5-2 mm, turbinate; stems usually erect (S. Anatolia) subsp. brachycalyx subsp. brachycalyx P.H. Davis in Kew Bull. 1951:77 (1951). Map 49. Rocky limestone slopes and ruins, 90-1830 m.   Type: [Turkey C5 Içel] Portes Ciliciennes (Gülek Boğazi), viii 1855, Balansa 538 (holo. K! iso. W!).   S. Anatolia. C3 Antalya: d. Gebiz, Bozburun Da., 1700 m, D. 15602! C5 Içel: Gülek Boğazi, D. 16469! Hatay: Djebel Mousa (Musa Da.), 610 m, Haradj. 3182! C6 Adana: 2 km N. of Haruniye, foot of Düldül Da., 400 m, Sorger 78-78-14! Maraş: Ahir Da., 1830 m, Haradj. 1551! Kozan forest, Karakan 347! Hatay: Antakya, St. Peter's church, 90 m, Hub.-Mor. 12118!   E. Medit. element. A specimen reputedly from Sicily (Palermo, Gandoger 294!) belongs to this subspecies.