Lamiaceae


Nepeta caesarea
Nepeta L.
Nepeta caesarea BOISS.
Ömür: Çok yıllık
Yapı: ot
Hayat formu:
İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 7
Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8
Habitat: kaya yamaçları maki, seyrek yaprak döken koruluk, kuru dere yatağı
Minimum yükseklik: 650
Maksimum yükseklik: 1700
Endemik: endemik
Element: D. Akdeniz
Türkiye dağılımı: G. ve O. Anadolu
Genel dağılımı: Türkiye
Bulunduğu kareler:A3 B5 C4 C5 C6
 
N. caesarea Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:655 (1879). Map 41.
  Perennial; stems erect from a woody rootstock, 50-80 cm, softly adpressed-pilose, eglandular throughout. Leaves greyish, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 1.5-7 x 1-2 cm, subentire or finely crenulate, pilose-tomentose and with sessile glands, truncate or cuneate. Petiole ± absent or to 2 cm. Inflorescence paniculate or unbranched; verticillasters to c. 30-flowered, condensed into a terminal oblong spike, 4-11 cm. Bracteoles linear-filiform, setose-plumose, equal to or longer than calyces. Calyx tubular, 10-12 mm, ± densely eglan-dular-tomentose with or without scattered glandular papillae; mouth slightlyoblique; teeth 6-8 mm, filiform, ±_subulate. Corolla white or purplish-pink, 13-15 mm, tube scarcely longer than calyx teeth. Nutlets broadly oblong, rounded trigonous, 1.4 x 1 mm, tuberculate. Fl. 7-8. Rocky slopes, macchie, in open deciduous woodland, dried riverbed, (650-)1100-1700 m.
  Type: [Turkey B5 Kayseri] ad Caesaream (Kayseri) Cappadociae, Wiedemann 348 (holo. G, iso. E! W!).
  S. & rarely C. Anatolia. A3 Ankara: Nallıhan, 650 m, D. 37038! C4 Konya: d. Karaman, Hamitseydi boğaz, D. 16235! Içel: Uzuncaburç, Sorger 77-18-3! C5 Içel: Gözne, 16 viii 1931, Eig & M. Zohary! Niğde: d. Ulukişla, N. foot of Bulgar Da., c. 1250 m, D. 16520! C6 Adana: 7 km S. of Yarpuz, 1550 m, Sorger 78-42-8! Hatay: Amanus mts., Köstelli forest, Akman 24!
  Endemic. E. Medit. element. Without close allies on account of the narrow leaves, the spike-like inflorescence, the (usually) white corollas and the prominently setose-plumose linear-filiform bracteoles.