Lamiaceae

Micromeria myrtifolia

Micromeria BENTHAM Micromeria myrtifolia BOISS. ET HOHEN. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: odunsu ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Habitat: kayalık yamaçlar ve yarıklar (ekseriya kireçtaşı), Pinus brutia orman açıklığı, maki, frig Minimum yükseklik: 0 Maksimum yükseklik: 1900 Endemik: - Element: D. Akdeniz Türkiye dağılımı: Trakya, Dış ve D. (G. Sonu) Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Yunanistan, Ege, Kıbrıs, B. Suriye, K. Irak, B. İran Bulunduğu kareler :A1 A2 A3 A5 B1 B2 B3 B4 B6 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7

M. myrtifolia Boiss. & Hohen. in Boiss., Diagn. 1(5): 19 (1844). Syn: M. lycia Stapf in Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. Kl. 50(2):94 (1885)! Figure 11. Map 47.   Erect suffruticose perennial of variable facies. Stems (10-)20-45 cm, recurved-pubescent. Median leaves ovate to elliptic, (5-)7-l 1 x (1.5-)3-5.5 mm, pubescent to shortly hirsute, margin narrowly revolute, subacute to shortly acuminate, pubescent to shortly hirsute, petiole c. 1 mm. Inflorescence long and usually lax, (6-) 10-20 cm, internodes 2-3 x verticillasters. Verticillasters densely globose-hemispherical and typically many-flowered, 1/2-1 x floral leaves, cymules and flowers subsessile (see observation on variants below). Bracteoles linear-subulate, typically c. as long as calyx tube. Calyx cylindrical, 3-3.5 mm, shortly hispidulous, teeth subequal, or upper 3 half as long as lower pair, 1/5-1/4 as long as calyx, narrowly lanceolate, divergent; throat bearded. Corolla c. 5 mm, mauve or pink. Nutlets oblong, 0.7-1 x 0.3 mm, obtuse to mammilliform. Fl. 5-7. Rocky slopes and crevices (often limestone), open Pinus brutia forest, macchie, phrygana, s. 1.-1900 m.   Type: [Iraq] in rupestribus montis Gara Kurdistaniae, Kotschy (holo. G!).   Mainly Turkey-in-Europe, Outer & E. (southern) Anatolia, Islands. A 1(E) Tekirdağ: Gaziköy, A. Baytop (ISTE 13524)! A1(A) Balıkesir: Marmara adasi, A. Baytop (ISTE 13677)! A2(E) Istanbul: Baltiliman, 25 vi 1936, B. Post! A2(A) Bursa: Gemlik, 80 m, Karamanoğlu 967! A3 Sakarya: Izmit to Sakarya, s.1., Rech. 15321! A5 Amasya: mt. Logman, 500-600 m, Bornm. 1889:650! Bl Izmir: Çiplak Da., 300 m, Hub.-Mor. 2703! B2 Manisa: 8 km W. of Salihli, 120 m, Buttler & Erben 17235! B3 Eskişehir: Sündiken Da., Alpagut, 350 m, Ekim 649! B4 Konya: 30 km N. of Konya, 1300 m, Sorger 66-40-17! B6 Adana: d. Saimbeyli, Himmetli, 900 m, Ekim 3528! Cl Aydin: Samsun Da. above Priene, 100-200 m, Bornm. 1906:9865! C2 Denizli: d. Acipayam, Kizilhisar to Yeşilova, 1000 m, Hub.-Mor. 12709! Antalya: Göl-başi, Luschan (syntype of M. lycia)! C3 Antalya: Tahtali Da. at Kuzdere, 900 m, D. 15139! C4 Içel: Anamur, Péronin 78! C5 Adana: Pozanti, 1200 m, Aberdeen Univ. Amanus Exped. A2 57! C6 Hatay: Amanus nr Egbez, 490 m, Haradj. 650! C7 Adıyaman: Eskikahta, Sorger 73-28-3! Is: Lesvos, Mitilini, 900 m, Rech. 124a! Khios, N. of Kalamoti, Lüdtke 539! Ikaria, Therme Kryphogalia, Rech. 4480! Samos, Vathy, Rech. 1899! Nisiros, Papatsou 464! Rodhos, Salakos, Bourgeau 134!   Greece, Aegean, Cyprus, W. Syria, N. Iraq, W. Iran. E. Medit. element. The commonest and most-collected Turkish Micromeria. Grazed, depauperate, shaded or weak specimens have more slender stems, and ± pedunculate, laxer and often few-flowered cymules with shorter bracteoles. Such plants occur throughout the range of M. myrtifolia in Turkey and are evidently modifications of it; M. lycia Stapf is such a variant. These depauperate forms havesometimes been misidentified as M. graeca (subsp. graeca) which, however, differs in its more conspicuously sub-bilabiate calyx with longer more subulate teeth; they could also be confused with the more eastern M. elliptica.