Fabaceae

Trigonella mesopotamica

Trigonella L. Trigonella mesopotamica HUB.-MOR. Ömür: Tek yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 4 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Habitat: kayalık yamaçlar, meşe çalılığı, bozkır, nadas tarlaları Minimum yükseklik: 300 Maksimum yükseklik: 1500 Endemik: - Element: İran-Turan Türkiye dağılımı: D. (G. uç) Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Lübnan, Suriye Bulunduğu kareler :B8 C6 C7 C8 C9

T. mesopotamica Hub.-Mor. in Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 29: 322 (1969). Syn: T. hierosolymitana auct., quoad plantam anatolicam et syriacam, non Boiss. (1849); T. kotschyi Fenzl var. hierosolymitana (Boiss.) Širj. in Publ. Fac. Sci. Univ. Masaryk Brno 1 (2): 27 (1929) pro parte, excl. typ.; T. kotschyi Fenzl subsp. hierosolymitana (Boiss.) Thiéb., Fl. Lib.-Syr. 2:19 (1940), excl. typ. Figure 11, p. 463; 12, p. 473. Loosely subadpressed-pubescent, mainly branched from base; stems ascending-erect, 10-40 cm. Stipules lanceolate-acuminate, entire. Leaflets oblong to obovate, denticulate, 7-20x3-10 mm. Peduncle 2-6 cm. Flowers 5-15, forming a lax spherical, ovate or oblong raceme. Calyx campanulate, 3-4 mm, tube 1.8-2.2 mm; teeth unequal, two upper teeth lanceolate-acuminate, shorter than tube (1.2-2 mm), three lower teeth lanceolate-triangular about half as long as tube (0.5-1.1 mm). Corolla yellow, 7-8 mm. Legumes linear, terete, with short adpressed curved hairs, falcate to semicircular, 2-2.5 x 0.15-0.2 cm, indistinctly reticulate-nerved, 4-5-seeded, seed-bearing part 1.5-1.8 cm. tapering into a straight orsomewhat curved beak 0.5-0.7 cm. Seeds oblong, 2-2.5 x 1-1.5 mm, finely tuber-cled. Fl. 4-5. Rocky slopes, Querctis-scrub, steppes, fallow fields, 300-1500 m. Type: Turkey C8 Mardin: 11 km from Midyat to Gercüş, 1100 m, limestone steppe, 13 v 1966, Davis 42899 (holo. E!). E. (southern) Anatolia. B8 Siirt: 37 km from Siirt to Baykan, 800-900 m, D. 43172! C6 Gaziantep: 6 km E of Gaziantep, 700 m, Hub.-Mor. 13367! C7 Urfa: Sürüç to Urfa, 600 m, D. 27988! C8 Sürt: 3 km S of Siirt, 800 m, D. 43201! Mardin: Kiziltepe, 600 m, D. 28649! C9 Siirt: above Şirnak, 1400-1500 m, D. 42605! Lebanon (Baalbek!), Syria (Aleppo! Damascus-Palmyra!). Ir.-Tur. element. Somewhat intermediate between T. spruneriana Boiss. (with small flowers and short calyx teeth) and T. hierosolymitana Boiss. (with flowers 8-10 mm, and long subequal calyx teeth).