Poaceae


Sesleria phleoides
Sesleria SCOP.
Sesleria phleoides STEVEN EX ROEMER ET SCHULTES
Ömür: Çok yıllık
Yapı: ot
Hayat formu:
İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 5
Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8
Habitat: alpinik hareketli yayalık ve açık kayalıklar eriyen kar kenarında, kireç taşlı yamaçlar
Minimum yükseklik: 1600
Maksimum yükseklik: 2000
Endemik: -
Element: ?
Türkiye dağılımı: K. Anadolu ve 34 Derece boylamının Doğusunda Karasal Anadolu
Genel dağılımı: Kafkasya, Kuzey İran
Bulunduğu kareler:A5 A7 A8 A9 B5 B6 B8 B9 B10 C5
S. phleoides Steven ex Roemer& Schultes, Syst. Veg. 2:604 (1817). Syn: S. caucasica Scheele in Flora 27:55 (1844); S. polyathera C. Koch in Linnaea 21:399 (1848); S. nitida sensu C.A. Meyer, Verz. Pfl. Cauc. 21 (1849) non Ten. (1811). Map 98.
Erect tufted perennial, 10-20 cm, elongating to 42 cm after anthesis. Stems striate, glabrous. Leaf sheaths pubescent or hirsute along veins. Ligule 0.5-0.7 mm, almost reduced to fimbriate hairy membrane. Leaf blades 8-15 cm x 1.5-4 mm, pale green, cucullate to acuminate, white-tipped, densely or weakly pilose on adaxial surface, sometimes hirsute-ciliate above sheath; margins and less often midrib scabridulous, thickened; stem leaves smaller. Inflorescence flac-cidly echinate, ovoid to broadly ovoid, 1-2 x 1-1.5 cm, usually suffused dark or greyish-purple at anthesis, becoming straw yellow. Spikelets 2(-4)-flowered. Glumes ovate, 3-4 x 1.5-2.2 mm, hyaline-membranous, glabrous, keel ciliolate, upper part of glume together with 1.2-2.5(-4) mm, scabrid or ± glabrous awn often bluish-purple. Lemma 3-4 mm, 3-5-fid; longest awn 1.5-2 mm. Palea lanceolate, 2-keeled, awns 0.5-l(-1.5) mm. Anthers oblong-linear, 1.6-3.2 mm, yellow or yellow tipped purple. Caryopsis obovoid, c. 2 mm, pubescent at apex. Fl. 5-8. Alpine screes and open turf (often grazed), nr melting snow, rocky limestone slopes, with Juniperus sabina, Fritillaria, etc., (1600-)2000-3505 m.
Type: [USSR, Caucasia] Caucasi orientales alpes,Marschall von Bieberstein (holo. LE).
Mainly N. & Inner Anatolia E. of 34 E. A5 Samsun: Akdağ, from Dere Başalan köy, 1700-1900 m, Tobey 980! Amasya: Sana Da., 1600 m, Bornm. 1890:1804! A7 Gümüşane: Gümüşane, mt. Aktasch(nr Ilya Da.),Sint. 1894: 6023! mt. Feceleni, nr Gümüşane, Bourgeau 1862:257 (as S. polyathera)! A8 Erzurum: d. Oltu, mt. Hussein, 1912, Sosnovsky. A9 Kars: Sarikamiş, Aladağ, 2100-2550 m, Güneş (ISTE 48085)! B5 Kayseri: Bakir Da., nr Akdağ Y., 2500-2700 m, D. 19348! B6 Kayseri: Arslan-Dach (Aslan Da.), 53 km E.S.E. of mt. Argée, Bal. 1856:844 (as S. polyathera)! B8 Erzurum: Palandöken Da., 2200 m, Ehrend. et al. 787-113A-42! B9 Ağri: Tahir Da. pass, c. 2400 m, Rix 1651! Van: d. Gevaş, Artos Da., 3505 m, D. 22867! B10 Kars: N.E. slope of Ağri Da., 2500 m, D. 43729! C5 Niğde: Kizil Tepe, 2800 m, Siehe 1896:613! Içel: Bulghar Da., 1830-2135 m, Kotschy 1853:106!
Caucasia, N. Iran. This species, a predominantly alpine one with the lowest altitude of 1600 m, on Sana Da., is the most eastern in distribution of the genus. Related to S. coerulans Friv. from the northern part of the Balkan peninsula, from which anatomically it is not distinct.