Fabaceae

Oxytropis lazica

Oxytropis lazica

Oxytropis DC. Oxytropis lazica BOISS. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: alpin çayırlık Minimum yükseklik: 2100 Maksimum yükseklik: 2900 Endemik: - Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: KD. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Transkafkasya Bulunduğu kareler:A7 A8 A9 B9

O. lazica Boiss., Fl. Or. 2:499 (1872). Syn: O. micans Freyn & Sint. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3:187 (1895)! Figure 2, p. 229.   Acaulous procumbent perennial, with a thick woody much branched root-stock. Leaves with 6-15 pairs of leaflets, 3-7 cm long including petiole shorter than rachis; leaflets oblong-ovate to narrow oblong-elliptic with a thin indumentum of long spreading hairs, 3-10 x 1.5-4 mm. Scapes ascending-erect, 7-14cm. Inflorescence capitate, ± dense. 4-10-fiowered, not elongating in fruit. Bracts conspicuous, 5-13 x 1.5-3 mm. Calyx 9-12 mm, teeth much shorter than tube, with short adpressed hairs. Corolla white, pale- or violet-blue; standard 17-21 mm; wings 12-14 mm; keel 11-12 mm including a very short c. 0.5 mm beak. Legume subsessile, ovate-oblong, curved, c. 20 mm, with short ± adpressed hairs. Fl. 7-8. Alpine meadows, 2100-2900 m.   Type: [Turkey A8 Rize] supra Djimil et Khabakhar, 2100-2400 m, vii-viii 1866, Balansa 1399 (holo. G! iso. K!).   N.E. Anatolia. A7 Giresun: Eribel pass, S of Tamdere, 2120-2350 m, Hub.-Mor. 16247! Trabzon: Zigana Da., E of pass, 2300-2500 m, Hub.-Mor. 16428! Gümüşane: Karagöl Da., Manadur, Sint. 1894:7148! A8 Gümüşane: Haldizan Da., N of Baiburt, 2900 m, Balls 1680a! A9 Çoruh Kars (Grossheim 5: map 414); Kars: Aras valley (Grossheim 5: map 414). B9 Ağri: Ala Da. massif, Hüdavendiğar Tepe (from Diyadin) 2750 m, Watson et al. 3070!   Transcaucasia. Similar in facies to O. albana but distinguished by the long bracts, the short calyx teeth and the very short beak of the keel.