Rosaceae

Rubus caesius

Rubus L. Rubus caesius L. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: çalı Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: güneşli veya gölgeli dereler veya nehirler Minimum yükseklik: 800 Maksimum yükseklik: 2000 Endemik: - Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: B. ve GB. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Avrupa’nın Çoğu, Kafkasya, K. Irak, Afganistan Bulunduğu kareler :A2 A3 A4 B4 B5 B7 B8 B9 B10 C5 C6 C9 C10

R. caesius L., Sp. PL 493 (1753). Ic: Syme, Engl. Bot. ed. 3, t. 456 (1864); Sudre, op. cit., t. 207 (1908-13); Ross-Craig, Draw. Brit. PL 8: t. 24 (1955).   Low, trailing shrub. Turions long and usually procumbent, terete, pruinose, usually glabrous, armed with slender, short, straight or falcate prickles. Leavesternate (or the uppermost sometimes simple and trilobed); leaflets subglabrous above, pubescent below, bidentate, the lateral ones subsessile, the terminal one petiolulate, ovate, often shortly lobed (especially in shade); stipules lanceolate. Flowering shoots erect, 15-40 cm, pubescent or axillary, short, consisting of 2-6-flowered corymbs. Sepals ovate-cuspidate, pubescent-tomentose, glandular or eglandular, adpressed to the maturing fruit. Petals white, elliptic to sub-orbicular, 8-10 mm. Drupelets black, pruinose, large (c. 5 mm), few (2-20), loosely coherent. Fl. 5-8. Mainly by streams and rivers in sun or shade, 800-2000 m.   Described from Europe (Hb. Cliff., Hb. Linn. 653/7!).   Widespread but scattered, absent from W. & S.W. Anatolia. A2(E) Istanbul: Belgrad forest, Orshan 56620! A2(A) Bursa: Olympus (Ulu Da.), Sibthorp (fide Boissier). A3 Bolu: Abant G., 1350 m, A. & T. Baytop (ISTF 18445)! A4 Ankara: Hacikadin De., nr. Keçiören, c. 800 m, D. 18749! A9 Çoruh: Ardanuç (Gross-heim 5: map 66). B4 Ankara: Beynam forest, 1250 m, Kasapligil 246! B5 Yozgat: Akdağmadeni, 1650 m, 22 viii 1951, İV. Atahan! B7 Erzincan: Sipikör, nr. Bendolam, Sint. 3171! B8 Erzurum: 20 km from Varto to Hinis, 1900 m, D. 46251! B9 Van: d. Çatak, Kavuşşahap Da., 1980 m, D. 23009! B10 Kars: nr. Iğdir (Grossheim 5: map 66). C5 Niğde: S. bank of river below Maden, 1524 m, Darrah 534! C6 Maraş: Berit Da.,Hausskn. C9 Hakkari: below Koçanis, 1600 m, Nábělek 1868. C10 Hakkari: 40 km from Yüksekova to Şemdinli, 1600 m, D. 45089! Most of Europe, Caucasia, N. Iraq, Afghanistan, eastwards to Altai. Hybrids (called 'Rubi corylifolii’) occur between R. caesius and other sections/subsections of Subgen. Rubus (see p. 39).