Fabaceae

Psoralea bituminosa

Psoralea L. Psoralea bituminosa L. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: açıktaki zeminler ve ormanlık yerlerde Minimum yükseklik: 0 Maksimum yükseklik: 900 Endemik: - Element: Akdeniz Türkiye dağılımı: Trakya, Dış Anadolu Genel dağılımı: G. Avrupa, Kırım, B. Suriye, Kıbrıs, Kafkasya, Sina, K. Afrika Bulunduğu kareler :A1 A2 A3 A5 A6 A7 B1 C2 C3 C5 C6

P. bituminosa L., Sp. P1. 763 (1753). Syn: P. palaestina Gouan in Jacq., Hort. Vindob. 2:86, t. 84 (1773); Asphalthium bituminosum (L.) Medik., Phil. Bot. 1:211 (1789). Ic: Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ. 22: t. 84 (1903); Fiori, Ic. Fl. Ital. 2087 (1899).   Plants 20-140 cm, stiffly pubescent, smelling of pitch. Leaves cauline. Leaflets 3-5 x 1.5-2.5 cm, linear-lanceolate to broadly ovate; stipules linear to lanceolate. Inflorescence 7-30-flowered, capitate-umbellate. Bracts 2-3-dentate, teeth long-setaceous to occasionally lanceolate, whitish-hirsute. Corolla 15-20 mm, blue to violet. Fruit hirsute above, 6-10 x c. 5 mm, excluding the 6-10 mm ensiform beak. Fl. 5-8. Open ground and in woodland, s.l.-900 m.   Described from Italy and Sicily (Hb. Linn. 928/19, photo!).   Turkey-in-Europe, Outer Anatolia, Islands. A1(E) Tekirdağ: 5 km S of Inecik, Coode & Jones 2840! A1(A) Çanakkale: nr. Sarijer, Sint. 1883:895! A2(E) Istanbul: Arnavoutkoy, 30 vii 1936, B. Post! A2(A) Istanbul: Paschebagtche (Paşa Bahçe), 1 vi 1902, Azn.! A3 Zonguldak: Kozlu, Khan et al. 805! A5 Sinop: Ayancik, Alpay 292. A6 Samsun: 3 km E of Samsun, nr. s.l., Tobey 316! A7 Trabzon: Trabzon, 60 m, Balls 327! Bl lzmir: Edremit to Bergama, Dudley, D. 34849. B5 Yozgat: Sakarya valley, Küplü, Curtis 206! C2 Muğla: Fethiye, 29 iv 1958, Yalt.! C3 Antalya: Tahtali Da. at Kuzdere, 900 m, D. 15138! C5 Hatay: Mt. Cassius (Akra Da.), 300-600 m, Haradj. 2961! C6 Adana: d. Feke, Göksu gorge below Himmetli, 700-800 m, D. 19846! Is: Khios, Guiol! Ikaria, Runemark & Snogerup 6933; Samos, Rech. 3497a; Kos, Reclı.; Khalki, Gathorne-Hardy 732! Rodhos, 1924 Ferrini.   S. Europe, Crimea, W. Syria, Cyprus, Caucasia, Sinai, N. Africa. Medit. element. A vary variable species, especially in the form of its bracts, sepals and stipules. P. palaestina Gouan appears to be no more than an extreme form of P. bituminosa with long, narrow stipules and many-flowered heads.