Liliaceae

Narthecium balansae

Narthecium HUDSON Narthecium balansae BRIQ. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: bataklık araziler, ıslak kenarlar, turbalı otlaklar Minimum yükseklik: 200 Maksimum yükseklik: 2200 Endemik: - Element: Karadeniz Türkiye dağılımı: KD. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Kafkasya Bulunduğu kareler:A7 A8

N. balansae Briq. in Anım. Cons. Jard. Bot. Geneve 5:77 (1901). Syn:iV. ossifragum sensu Boiss., FL Or. 5:329 (1882) non (L.) Hudson (1762); N. caucasicutn Miscz. in FL Cauc. Crit. 2(4): 82 (1912).   Stera slender, 15-50 cm. Turion leaves dark green, stiffly divergent, linear, (40-)70-200 x 2.5-50-8) mm, 5-11-veined, apex obliquely cucullate, base with broad scarious sheathing margins; cauline distant, slightly divergent from stem but suberect. Raceme dense, 10-20-fiowered, oblong, 4-9 cm. Perianth segments yellow, linear-oblong, 6-7 mm. Filaments densely villous except at apex; anthers yellow. Capsule longer than persistent erect perianth segments. Fl 7-8. Boggy arms, wet banks, edges of stream;, in peaty pastures, 200-2200 m.   Type: [Turkey A8 Rize] region alpine du Lazistan, au-dessus de Djimii (Çimil), 2200 m, Balansa (holo. G).   N.E. Anatolia; rare, A7 Giresun: Imbaş, below Kizil Ali Y., 1300-1600 m, Hand.-Mazz. 7721 A8 Çoruh: 9 km from Hcpa to Arhavi, 200 m, D. 47711 (very robust)! Sawal lepe above Murgul, 16G0 m, D. 32240!   Caucasus (Ahkhazya), Euxine element. A very local species confined in Turkey to a few small boggy areas. Differs from N. ossifragum (L.) Hudson in its compressed vagmate basal leaves, cauline leaves diverging from stem, and anthers with villous filaments, and from N. scardicum Kol in its usually taller habit, 6-7 mm perianth segments and longer leaves.