Paeoniaceae

Paeonia mascula subsp. mascula

Paeonia mascula subsp. mascula

Paeonia L. Paeonia mascula (L.) MILLER subsp. mascula (L.) MILLER Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: otsu Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 4 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Habitat: meşe çaçlılık, huş çalılık, kayalık yamaç Minimum yükseklik: 1000 Maksimum yükseklik: 2200 Endemik: - Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: G. ve D. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Avrupa, Kafkasya, Kıbrıs, K. Irak, K. İran Bulunduğu kareler :A5 A7 A8 B1 B5 B7 B8 B9 C3 C6 C9

P. mascula (L.) Miller, Gard. Dict. No. 1(1768). Syn: P. officinalis var. mascula L.,Sp. Pl. 530(1753).   Leaves simply biternate, or with some leaflets further divided, thus with 9-16 narrowly to broadly elliptic segments, glabrous to pilose beneath. Flowers 8-14 cm across, petals red. Follicles 3-5, 2-4 cm, white-tomentose, with a truncate apex and sessile stigma. - A complex species, of which 2 subspecies occur in Turkey: 1. Leaves pilose beneath with 12-16 segments subsp. arietina 1. Leaves glabrous or sparsely pilose beneath with 9-10(-12) segments , subsp. mascula subsp. mascuia. Syn: P. corallina Retz,. Qbs. Bot. 3: 34 (1783); P. kevachensis Azn. in Mag. Bot. Lap. 16: 7 (1917); P. corallina var. caucasica Schipcz. in Not. Syst. Leningrad 2: 45 (1921)! P. caucasica (Schipcz.) Schipcz. in Fl. URSS 7: 28 (1937); P. corallina var. orientalis Thiéb., Fl. Lib.-Syr. 1: 37 (1936); P. arietina var. orientalis (Thiéb.) Stern in J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 68: 127 (1943); P. kurdistanica Zohary in Pal. J. Bot., Jer. ser. 2: 155 (1944). Iα: Stern, Study of Paeonia 68-69 (1946). Fl. 4-6. Oak and beech scrub, rocky slopes, 1000-2200 m.   Described from Switzerland.   S.Anatolia, Kurdistan. Islands. C3 Antalya: Teke Da.. 1100-1200 m, D. 15199! Co Hatay: Antakya to Yayladağ, 1000 m, D. 27159! Seyhan: d. Bahçe, Dumanlı Da., 1300 m, D. 26879! C9 Bitlis: d. Kotum, Karz Da., 2200 m, D. 24603! Is.: Samos, D. 1639!   Scattered through Europe, Caucasia, Cyprus, N. Iraq, N. Iran. subsp. arietina (Anders.) Cullen & Heywood in Feddes Rep. 69: 35 (1964). Syn: P. arietina Anders. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 12: 275 (1818); P. peregrina sensu Boiss., Fl. Or. 1: 97 (1867) non Miller; P. russii sensu Hal., Consp. Fl. Graec. 1: 35 (1901) non Biv. Iα: Stern, Study of Paeonia 81-32 (1946). Ft. 6-7. Scrub, thickets, rocky slopes, 1000-2000 m. Described from plants cultivated in Britain.   N. & Inner Anatolia, Mysia, Islands. A5 Amasya: Mersifon, Maniss.! A7 Gümüşane: Gümüşane, Bourgeau 5! A8 Gümüşane: S foot of Soğanlı Da., 1700 m, D. 31990! Trabzon: between Bayburt and Rize, 1800 m. Fıırse & Synge 805! Bl Balikesir: Ida (Kaz Da.), Sint. 1883: 459! B5 Yozgat: Yozgat, Curtis 116! B7 Tunceli: Pülümür to Seiepur, 1900 m, D. 29299! B8 Elazığ: 32 km W of Bingöl, D. 24809! B9 Bitlis: Karz Da., 2000 m, D. 24556! Is.: Samos, Rech. 3389. Italy, Balkan Peninsula. The two subspecies show much less morphological overlap in Turkey than they do in the Balkans, where many specimens cannot be assigned with certainty to either. Subsp. arietina is found mainly in the less arid parts of the Ir.-Tur. region, and is the commonest peony in Turkey.