Asteraceae



Centaurea albonitens TURRILL.
Centaurea albonitens TURRILL
Centaurea albonitens TURRILL.
Centaurea alboitens TURRILL.
Centaurea albonitens TURRILL.

Centaurea L.
Centaurea albonitens TURRILL
Ömür: Çok yıllık
Yapı: ot
Hayat formu:
İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 7
Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8
Habitat: step, kurak taşlı yamaç
Minimum yükseklik: 1640
Maksimum yükseklik: 2400
Endemik: -
Element: İran-Turan
Türkiye dağılımı: GD. Anadolu
Genel dağılımı: KB. ve B. İran
Bulunduğu iller
Bulunduğu kareler: B9

 
C. albonitens Turrill in Kew Bull. 1930:427 (1930). Syn: Amberboa cartha-moides DC, Prodr. 6:561 (1838)! Phaeopappus carthamoides (DC.) Boiss., Diagn. ser. 1(6): 125 (1845)! Centaurea carthamoides (DC.) Schultz Bip. in Linnaea 19:326 (1847)! non C. carthamoides Chevall. (1827); Tomanthea carthamoides (DC.) Takht. in Trudy Molod. Nauchn. Rabotn. Armyan. Fil. AN SSSR 1939:243 (1939)! Ic: Bot. Jahrb. 82:176 & t. 17 (1963).
Perennial, stem 23-31 cm, erect, simple, nearly glabrous and conspicuously ivory-white. Leaves very firm with prominent veins, petiole and mid-nerve white; basal and lower nearly orbicular to oval or broadly lanceolate, petiolate, median and upper lanceolate, decurrent. Involucre 25-35 x 23-40 mm. Appendages only partly concealing basal part of phyllaries, firm, brown, triangular or mostly rectangular in lower part, upper part with 4-6 pairs of cilia directed towards apex and a central spinule 4-7 mm, sometimes appendage only dentate. Flowers yellow. Achenes 6 mm; pappus 10-14 mm (inner row longest). Fl. 7-8. Steppe, dry stony slopes, 1640-2400 m.
Type: [Iran] Plain west of Tabriz, 23 vi 1929, Gilliat-Smith 2568 (holo. K!).
S.E. Anatolia. B9 Muş: 23 km from Patnos to Malazgirt, 1640 m, Hub.-Mor. 10861! Van: 34 km from Gürpinar to Hoşap, 2150 m, D. 45961! N.W. & W. Iran. A very characteristic Irano-Turanian species, which cannot be confused with any other. The only species showing a close relationship is C. heratensis Rech. fil. from Afghanistan.