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Crepis sahendii BOISS. ET BUHSE |
 Crepis sahendii BOISS. ET BUHSE |
Crepis L. |
| C. sahendii Boiss. & Buhse in Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 12:141 (1860). Syn: Crepis huetii Boiss., Fl. Or. 3:838 (1875)! Pterotheca runcinata Trautv. in Acta Horti Petrop. 4:385 (1876). Ic: Babcock, Gen. Crepis f. 186 (1947). Scapigerous perennial, 17-45 cm, with woody rootstock and deep tap root. Scapes erect, 1-few-capitulate, glabrous or shortly hairy. Leaves 3-15 x 0.6-3 cm, elliptic to oblanceolate, entire and remotely denticulate to deeply pinnatifid with narrow triangular ± horizontally spreading lobes, apex often long attenuate, usually acute, glabrous or shortly setose. Peduncles 3-17 cm, widely spreading to erect. Capitula 19-50-fiowered. Involucre 10-11.5 mm, pilose, eglandular. Receptacle with setiform paleae longer than mature achenes. Ligules 9.5-11 .5 mm, yellow. Style branches yellow. Achenes 6-7.5 mm, unbeaked, pale green or straw-coloured, striate. Pappus partly exserted from involucre. Fl. 6-9. Rocky stony slopes and screes to snow line, 2400-3660 m. Type: [Iran: Azerbaijan] Ssahendgebirge (Kuh-e Sahand) bei Schah-Jordi 2585 m, 20 vi 1847 (florens), Buhse 583 (G! LE). E. Anatolia. B8 Erzurum: Palandöken Da., 2700-3000 m, Battler 16069! Erzurum/Muş: Bingöl Da., 2895 m, Kotschy 500! (syntype of C. huetii). Siirt: Meleto Dagh (Meretug Da.), Sason, 2800 m, Hand.-Mazz. 2902! B9 Bitlis: Süphan Da., 3300 m, D. 24750! Van: Hoşap to Başkale, Çuhgediği, 2800-2870 m, Hub.-Mor. 11259! C9 Siirt: Halakur Da., nr Geziret-ibn-Omar (Cizre), c. 2450 m, Nábělek 3937. Hakkari: Kara Da., 3505 m, D. 24462! C10 Hakkari: Cilo Da., 10 km W. of Cilo Tepe, 3656 m, D. 24196! Transcaucasia, N.W. Iran, N. Iraq. Ir.-Tur. element. |